Iron Belt, WI
How exposed is Iron Belt to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Iron Belt at the 15th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 183 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Iron Belt's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 15th percentile nationally.
Where Iron Belt's buildings actually sit
183 buildings are counted in Iron Belt, and 63.4% 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.
How Iron Belt compares
There's little gap between Iron Belt's 15th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Iron Belt ranks 26,745 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,522 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 669 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Iron Belt
At the 15th national percentile, Iron Belt rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 63.4% of Iron Belt in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Iron Belt's 26,745-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Iron Belt, see the exposure-zones guide.