Trego, WI
Trego wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Trego lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 313 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Trego at the 42nd percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
313 buildings are counted in Trego, and 64.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Trego against the rest of the country
Compare Trego's two percentiles: 96th within Wisconsin, only 45th nationally — a gap of 50 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Trego ranks 17,258 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 35 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Trego
Trego's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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.
Hardening a home in Trego
With 64.2% of Trego 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.
Where Trego's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Trego's 17,258-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Trego's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.