Wittenberg, WI
How exposed is Wittenberg to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wittenberg at the 24th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 614 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wittenberg at the 24th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wittenberg's buildings actually sit
614 buildings are counted in Wittenberg, and 64.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 35.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Wittenberg compares
Compare Wittenberg's two percentiles: 47th 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, Wittenberg ranks 23,877 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,649 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 433 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Wittenberg and the insurance market
Wittenberg'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Wittenberg (64.8% 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 Wittenberg's 23,877-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Wittenberg, see the exposure-zones guide.