Winneconne, WI
How exposed is Winneconne to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Winneconne at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,626 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winneconne at the 40th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Winneconne's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Winneconne's buildings (74.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Winneconne compares
Within Wisconsin, Winneconne ranks higher (90th percentile) than it does nationally (39th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winneconne ranks 19,275 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,674 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 79 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Winneconne and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, Winneconne 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
Winneconne's 74.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Winneconne's 39th-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 Winneconne, see the exposure-zones guide.