Solon Springs, WI
How exposed is Solon Springs to wildfire?
Solon Springs's 568 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Solon Springs at the 44th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Solon Springs's 568 counted buildings, 55.5% carry Direct exposure and only 6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Solon Springs compares
Solon Springs's 97th-percentile standing inside Wisconsin outpaces its 47th 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, Solon Springs ranks 16,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,290 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 25 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Solon Springs and the insurance market
At the 47th national percentile, Solon Springs rates elevated 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Solon Springs (55.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Solon Springs's 16,752-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Solon Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.