Valders, WI
Valders, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Valders sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 570 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 Valders at the 9th percentile, close to its 9th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.6% of Valders's 570 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Valders compares
There's little gap between Valders's 9th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Wisconsin, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Valders ranks 28,857 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,260 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 774 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Valders
At the 9th national percentile, Valders rates low 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
Even with 91.4% of Valders 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Valders's 28,857-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Valders, see the exposure-zones guide.