Tennyson, WI
Tennyson, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Tennyson's 233 buildings earn a 22nd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tennyson at the 23rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Tennyson's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 76.8% of Tennyson's 233 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 23.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Tennyson compares
Compare Tennyson's two percentiles: 40th within Wisconsin, only 22nd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tennyson ranks 24,476 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,720 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 491 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Tennyson's moderate wildfire rating (22nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Tennyson's 76.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Tennyson's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tennyson's 24,476-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Tennyson's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.