Sparta, WI
Sparta, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sparta sits at the 28th 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 4,533 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sparta at the 30th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Sparta's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Sparta's buildings (72.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Sparta compares
Within Wisconsin, Sparta ranks higher (60th percentile) than it does nationally (28th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sparta ranks 22,585 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,767 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 326 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sparta
Sparta's moderate rating (28th 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 Sparta
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sparta (72.8% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sparta's 22,585-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sparta, see the exposure-zones guide.