Barron, WI
Barron, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Barron's 1,620 buildings earn a 10th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Barron at the 10th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
Barron's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 22.9% of Barron's 1,620 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Barron compares
There's little gap between Barron's 10th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barron ranks 28,383 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,694 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 758 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
At the 10th national percentile, Barron 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 Barron
Even with 77.1% of Barron outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Barron's 28,383-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Barron, see the exposure-zones guide.