Bellevue, WI
Bellevue, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bellevue sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 6,130 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bellevue at the 11th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bellevue rates 81.9% Minimal exposure against just 18.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,130 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,130 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Bellevue compares
Bellevue's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bellevue ranks 28,227 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,827 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 752 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Bellevue and the insurance market
At the 11th national percentile, Bellevue 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 Bellevue
Even with 81.9% of Bellevue 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 Bellevue's 28,227-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bellevue, see the exposure-zones guide.