Star Prairie, WI
Star Prairie, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Star Prairie's 378 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Star Prairie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Star Prairie's building exposure, zone by zone
55% of Star Prairie's 378 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 208 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 45% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Star Prairie compares
Compare Star Prairie's two percentiles: 46th within Wisconsin, only 24th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Star Prairie ranks 23,940 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,709 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 440 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Star Prairie and the insurance market
At the 24th national percentile, Star Prairie 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 Star Prairie
With 55% of Star Prairie 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
Star Prairie's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Star Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.