Verona, WI
Verona, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Verona at the 33rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 4,347 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Verona at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Verona's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Verona's buildings (76.4% of 4,347) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Verona ranks
Within Wisconsin, Verona ranks higher (75th percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Verona ranks 21,166 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,935 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 205 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Verona and the insurance market
At the 33rd national percentile, Verona rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 76.4% of Verona outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Verona's 21,166-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Verona, see the exposure-zones guide.