Belgium, WI
Belgium wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Belgium at the 7th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 990 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Belgium's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Where Belgium's buildings actually sit
Only 8.6% of Belgium's 990 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Belgium compares
Belgium's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belgium ranks 29,423 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,012 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 791 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Belgium and the insurance market
Belgium's low wildfire rating (7th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Belgium's 91.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belgium's 29,423-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Belgium, see the exposure-zones guide.