Dodgeville, WI
Dodgeville wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Dodgeville at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,244 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dodgeville at the 30th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Dodgeville's buildings actually sit
Only 9.6% of Dodgeville's 2,244 buildings carry Direct exposure and 27.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 62.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Dodgeville against the rest of the country
Within Wisconsin, Dodgeville ranks higher (62nd percentile) than it does nationally (29th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dodgeville ranks 22,395 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,830 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 310 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Dodgeville and the insurance market
Dodgeville's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Dodgeville's 62.9% 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 2,244 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dodgeville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dodgeville, see the exposure-zones guide.