Randolph, WI
Randolph wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Randolph at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 886 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Randolph's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
Randolph's building exposure, zone by zone
Randolph rates 96.1% Minimal exposure against just 4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 886 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Randolph compares
Within Wisconsin, Randolph ranks higher (85th percentile) than it does nationally (36th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Randolph ranks 20,063 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,853 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 122 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Randolph and the insurance market
At the 36th national percentile, Randolph rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 96.1% of Randolph 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 Randolph's 20,063-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Randolph, see the exposure-zones guide.