Waukesha (Township) , WI
Waukesha (Township) wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Waukesha (Township) lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 4,326 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 Waukesha (Township) at the 36th percentile, close to its 34th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Waukesha (Township) 's 4,326 counted buildings, 79.9% carry Direct exposure and only 15.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Waukesha (Township) ranks
Compare Waukesha (Township) 's two percentiles: 80th within Wisconsin, only 34th nationally — a gap of 46 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waukesha (Township) ranks 20,725 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,962 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 163 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Waukesha (Township) and the insurance market
At the 34th national percentile, Waukesha (Township) 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
Waukesha (Township) 's 79.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,326 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Waukesha (Township) . For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Waukesha (Township) , see the exposure-zones guide.