Hillsboro, WI
Hillsboro, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hillsboro's 858 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hillsboro at the 29th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hillsboro's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 89.9% of Hillsboro's 858 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.6% Direct and 0.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Hillsboro compares
Compare Hillsboro's two percentiles: 55th within Wisconsin, only 27th nationally — a gap of 28 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillsboro ranks 22,961 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,109 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 359 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillsboro
Hillsboro's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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 Hillsboro
Because 89.9% of Hillsboro'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 Hillsboro's 22,961-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hillsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.