Chili, WI
How exposed is Chili to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Chili at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 190 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Chili at the 19th national percentile — 0 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
Most of Chili's buildings (60% of 190) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Chili compares
There's little gap between Chili'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, Chili ranks 25,513 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,264 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 582 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Chili's low rating (19th 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 Chili
Chili's 60% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chili's 25,513-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chili, see the exposure-zones guide.