Big Foot Prairie, WI
How exposed is Big Foot Prairie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Big Foot Prairie at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 34 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Big Foot Prairie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 64.7% of Big Foot Prairie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 35.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Big Foot Prairie against the rest of the country
Big Foot Prairie scores 14th nationally and 15th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Big Foot Prairie ranks 27,028 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 685 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Big Foot Prairie and the insurance market
Big Foot Prairie's low wildfire rating (14th 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
With 64.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Big Foot Prairie gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 34 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Big Foot Prairie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Big Foot Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.