Waunakee, WI
How exposed is Waunakee to wildfire?
Waunakee sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 4,538 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Waunakee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.9% of Waunakee's 4,538 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Waunakee against the rest of the country
Compare Waunakee's two percentiles: 46th within Wisconsin, only 24th nationally — a gap of 22 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waunakee ranks 23,908 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,762 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 436 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Waunakee
Waunakee's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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 Waunakee
Even with 93.1% of Waunakee 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
Waunakee's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Waunakee, see the exposure-zones guide.