Blanchardville, WI
Blanchardville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blanchardville at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 508 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blanchardville at the 36th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Where Blanchardville's buildings actually sit
77.4% of Blanchardville's 508 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 22.1% Direct and 0.6% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Blanchardville ranks
Within Wisconsin, Blanchardville ranks higher (76th percentile) than it does nationally (33rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blanchardville ranks 21,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,215 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 197 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blanchardville
Blanchardville's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Blanchardville
Blanchardville's 77.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Blanchardville's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Blanchardville, see the exposure-zones guide.