Rewey, WI
How exposed is Rewey to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rewey lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 190 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rewey's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Rewey's buildings (89.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Rewey against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Rewey's 19th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rewey ranks 25,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,265 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 578 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Rewey's low wildfire rating (19th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 89.5% of Rewey's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 190 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rewey. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rewey, see the exposure-zones guide.