Butler, WI
How exposed is Butler to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Butler lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,057 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Butler at the 23rd national percentile — 4 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.7% of Butler's 1,057 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Butler against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Butler's 19th national percentile and its 28th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Butler ranks 25,512 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,553 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 581 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Butler and the insurance market
Butler's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Hardening a home in Butler
Butler's 97.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,057 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Butler. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Butler, see the exposure-zones guide.