Grand View, WI
Grand View wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grand View lands at the 20th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 142 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grand View at the 20th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Grand View's building exposure, zone by zone
142 buildings are counted in Grand View, and 64.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Grand View against the rest of the country
Grand View scores 20th nationally and 30th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand View ranks 25,294 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,231 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 563 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
Grand View'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Grand View's 64.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Grand View's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 142 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grand View. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand View's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.