Winchester, WI
Winchester wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winchester lands at the 37th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 470 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 Winchester at the 38th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.5% of Winchester's 470 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 289 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 10% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 28.5% are Minimal.
How Winchester compares
Within Wisconsin, Winchester ranks higher (86th percentile) than it does nationally (37th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winchester ranks 19,968 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 117 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
Winchester's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Winchester
With 61.5% of Winchester in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winchester's 19,968-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Winchester, see the exposure-zones guide.