La Valle, WI
How exposed is La Valle to wildfire?
USFS scores La Valle at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 254 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, La Valle's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
Where La Valle's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 73.6% of La Valle's 254 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where La Valle ranks
La Valle's 66th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 31st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Valle ranks 21,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,034 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 278 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
La Valle's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 73.6% of La Valle'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.
Where La Valle's figures come from
La Valle's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what La Valle's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.