Belleville, WI
Belleville wildfire risk explained
Belleville's 1,178 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Belleville at the 26th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Belleville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.7% of Belleville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Belleville against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Belleville ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (26th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belleville ranks 23,498 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,780 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 400 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belleville
At the 26th national percentile, Belleville rates moderate 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
With 86.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Belleville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Belleville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Belleville's 23,498-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Belleville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.