Stoughton, WI
How exposed is Stoughton to wildfire?
USFS scores Stoughton at the 32nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 5,170 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Stoughton at the 32nd percentile, close to its 32nd-percentile risk score.
Stoughton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.4% of Stoughton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 5,170 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Stoughton compares
Within Wisconsin, Stoughton ranks higher (72nd percentile) than it does nationally (32nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stoughton ranks 21,449 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,333 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 232 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Stoughton and the insurance market
Stoughton's moderate rating (32nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Stoughton's 90.4% 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
Stoughton's 32nd-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 Stoughton, see the exposure-zones guide.