Rockdale, WI
Rockdale wildfire risk explained
Rockdale sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 128 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rockdale's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 31st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
53.1% of Rockdale's 128 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 46.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Rockdale compares
Rockdale's 68th-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, Rockdale ranks 21,765 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,832 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 264 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rockdale
Rockdale'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
Even with 53.1% of Rockdale 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
Rockdale's 31st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Rockdale, see the exposure-zones guide.