Rock Falls, WI
How exposed is Rock Falls to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Rock Falls lands at the 22nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 170 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Rock Falls at the 22nd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Rock Falls's 170 counted buildings, 66.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Rock Falls ranks
Rock Falls scores 22nd nationally and 36th within Wisconsin — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rock Falls ranks 24,759 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,053 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 517 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Rock Falls and the insurance market
Rock Falls's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 66.5% of Rock Falls 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 170 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rock Falls. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rock Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.