Somers, WI
How exposed is Somers to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Somers lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,285 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Somers at the 21st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
57.1% of Somers's 4,285 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 42.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Somers ranks
Somers scores 20th nationally and 29th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Somers ranks 25,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,987 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 571 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Somers and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Somers rates low 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
Somers's 57.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Somers's 25,358-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Somers, see the exposure-zones guide.