Sheboygan, WI
Sheboygan wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sheboygan lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 21,096 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sheboygan at the 13th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Sheboygan rates 98.3% Minimal exposure against just 1.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 21,096 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 21,096 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Sheboygan ranks
Sheboygan's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (12th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sheboygan ranks 27,470 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 660 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 711 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
At the 13th national percentile, Sheboygan rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Sheboygan
With 98.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sheboygan gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 21,096 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sheboygan. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sheboygan, see the exposure-zones guide.