Wausaukee, WI
Wausaukee wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wausaukee at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 472 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wausaukee at the 22nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
71.4% of Wausaukee's 472 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 28.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Wausaukee against the rest of the country
Wausaukee's 44th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 23rd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wausaukee ranks 24,160 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,847 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 458 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 23rd national percentile, Wausaukee 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
Because 71.4% of Wausaukee's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wausaukee's 23rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wausaukee, see the exposure-zones guide.