Sherwood, WI
Sherwood, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Sherwood at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,325 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sherwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Sherwood's buildings (58.9%) 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.
Where Sherwood ranks
Sherwood's 41st-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 23rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sherwood ranks 24,350 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,956 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 480 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sherwood
At the 23rd national percentile, Sherwood rates moderate 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 Sherwood
Because 58.9% of Sherwood'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
Sherwood's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sherwood, see the exposure-zones guide.