Gratiot, WI
Gratiot wildfire risk explained
Gratiot sits at the 21st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 174 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Gratiot's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Where Gratiot's buildings actually sit
174 buildings are counted in Gratiot, and 71.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 28.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Gratiot compares
There's little gap between Gratiot's 21st national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gratiot ranks 25,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,876 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 544 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gratiot
Gratiot's moderate rating (21st 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
Because 71.3% of Gratiot's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gratiot's 25,039-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Gratiot, see the exposure-zones guide.