Shopiere, WI
How exposed is Shopiere to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Shopiere lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 131 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Shopiere at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Shopiere's building exposure, zone by zone
72.5% of Shopiere's 131 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 95 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 27.5% are Minimal.
How Shopiere compares
There's little gap between Shopiere's 8th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shopiere ranks 29,078 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 779 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopiere and the insurance market
Shopiere's low rating (8th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 72.5% of Shopiere in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Shopiere's 29,078-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Shopiere, see the exposure-zones guide.