Sandy Hook, WI
How exposed is Sandy Hook to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sandy Hook at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 234 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sandy Hook at the 28th percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Sandy Hook's 234 counted buildings, 62.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Sandy Hook compares
Compare Sandy Hook's two percentiles: 53rd within Wisconsin, only 27th nationally — a gap of 27 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sandy Hook ranks 23,151 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,691 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 377 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sandy Hook
At the 27th national percentile, Sandy Hook rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Sandy Hook (62.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Sandy Hook's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sandy Hook, see the exposure-zones guide.