Briggsville, WI
How exposed is Briggsville to wildfire?
Briggsville's 324 buildings earn a 34th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Briggsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 35th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
64.2% of Briggsville's 324 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 208 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 31.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 4.6% are Minimal.
How Briggsville compares
Briggsville's 79th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 34th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Briggsville ranks 20,816 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,997 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 170 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Briggsville and the insurance market
Briggsville's moderate rating (34th 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 Briggsville
Briggsville's 64.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Briggsville's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Briggsville, see the exposure-zones guide.