Edgar, WI
Edgar wildfire risk explained
Edgar's 741 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edgar at the 16th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Edgar rates 60.7% Minimal exposure against just 39.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 741 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Edgar ranks
There's little gap between Edgar's 16th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgar ranks 26,618 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,217 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 659 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Edgar
Edgar's low rating (16th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Edgar's 60.7% 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 741 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Edgar. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edgar, see the exposure-zones guide.