Trempealeau, WI
Trempealeau wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Trempealeau at the 21st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,064 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 Trempealeau at the 21st percentile, close to its 21st-percentile risk score.
Where Trempealeau's buildings actually sit
80.7% of Trempealeau's 1,064 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 17.4% Direct and 1.9% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Trempealeau compares
There's little gap between Trempealeau's 21st national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Trempealeau ranks 25,042 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,499 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 547 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Trempealeau and the insurance market
At the 21st national percentile, Trempealeau rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Trempealeau's 80.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Trempealeau's 25,042-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Trempealeau, see the exposure-zones guide.