Spring Valley, WI
Spring Valley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Spring Valley at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 747 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Spring Valley at the 26th percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Spring Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 53.8% of Spring Valley's 747 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 46.1% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Spring Valley ranks
Within Wisconsin, Spring Valley ranks higher (50th percentile) than it does nationally (25th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Spring Valley ranks 23,562 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 404 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Spring Valley
At the 25th national percentile, Spring Valley rates moderate 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
Spring Valley's 53.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Spring Valley's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Spring Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.