Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Wisconsin Rapids, WI's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Wisconsin Rapids lands at the 44th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,075 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wisconsin Rapids at the 44th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Wisconsin Rapids's building exposure, zone by zone
67.2% of Wisconsin Rapids's 10,075 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 11.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,075 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Wisconsin Rapids ranks
Compare Wisconsin Rapids's two percentiles: 94th within Wisconsin, only 44th nationally — a gap of 51 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wisconsin Rapids ranks 17,794 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,593 by building count (1 is largest). Within Wisconsin alone, it ranks 48 of 808 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Wisconsin on its state page.
Wisconsin Rapids and the insurance market
Wisconsin Rapids's elevated rating (44th 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 Wisconsin Rapids
Wisconsin Rapids's 67.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Wisconsin Rapids's 44th-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 Wisconsin Rapids, see the exposure-zones guide.