Rice Lake, WI
Rice Lake, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rice Lake lands at the 10th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 4,306 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rice Lake's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 10th percentile nationally.
Where Rice Lake's buildings actually sit
Rice Lake rates 81.6% Minimal exposure against just 14.3% Direct and 4.1% Indirect — of 4,306 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Rice Lake ranks
Rice Lake's risk sits at a similar level relative to Wisconsin (7th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (10th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rice Lake ranks 28,257 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,975 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 753 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rice Lake
Rice Lake's low rating (10th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Rice Lake
Rice Lake's 81.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Rice Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Rice Lake's 28,257-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rice Lake's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.