Shorewood, WI
Shorewood, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Shorewood lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 5,526 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shorewood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Shorewood's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Shorewood's buildings (99% of 5,526) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,526 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Shorewood against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Shorewood's 19th national percentile and its 27th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shorewood ranks 25,611 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,116 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 594 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shorewood
At the 19th national percentile, Shorewood 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 Shorewood
Even with 99% of Shorewood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Shorewood's 19th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Shorewood, see the exposure-zones guide.