Hilbert, WI
How exposed is Hilbert to wildfire?
Hilbert sits at the 18th 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 707 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hilbert at the 19th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hilbert's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 49.4% of Hilbert's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.5% Direct and 41.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Hilbert compares
There's little gap between Hilbert's 18th national percentile and its 25th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hilbert ranks 25,735 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,591 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 602 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hilbert
Hilbert's low wildfire rating (18th 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.
Hardening a home in Hilbert
Even with 49.4% of Hilbert outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hilbert's 25,735-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hilbert, see the exposure-zones guide.