Abbotsford, WI
Abbotsford wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Abbotsford at the 7th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,189 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Abbotsford at the 7th percentile, close to its 7th-percentile risk score.
Where Abbotsford's buildings actually sit
78.5% of Abbotsford's 1,189 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Abbotsford compares
There's little gap between Abbotsford's 7th national percentile and its 2nd percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Abbotsford ranks 29,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,713 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 788 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Abbotsford
At the 7th national percentile, Abbotsford rates low 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
Abbotsford's 78.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Abbotsford's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,189 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Abbotsford. The exposure-zones guide covers what Abbotsford's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.