Eleva, WI
How exposed is Eleva to wildfire?
Eleva sits at the 20th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 395 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eleva's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 20th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 37% of Eleva's 395 buildings carry Direct exposure and 5.8% carry Indirect; the remaining 57.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Eleva ranks
There's little gap between Eleva's 20th national percentile and its 31st percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eleva ranks 25,293 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,324 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 562 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Eleva
Eleva's low wildfire rating (20th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Eleva's 57.2% 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
Eleva's 20th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eleva, see the exposure-zones guide.