Winter, WI
Winter, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Winter's 313 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winter's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
69.3% of Winter's 313 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 30.7% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Winter against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Winter's 11th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winter ranks 28,132 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,306 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 747 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Winter and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Winter rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Winter
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Winter (69.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winter's 28,132-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winter, see the exposure-zones guide.