Sinkhole risk in Sawyer County, WI: No soluble rock mapped

No soluble rock mapped

No soluble bedrock mapped.

On soluble rock: 0%
At or near the surface: 0%
Buried under cover: 0%

What to do about a house in Sawyer County

No soluble bedrock is mapped here, so natural sinkholes are unlikely. Collapses from broken pipes or old mines are a separate risk.

Across 1,258 square miles, under one square mile of Sawyer County maps onto soluble rock. With about 18,835 residents (15 per square mile), much of the land is open, and the mapped rock may sit far from where people actually live. The figures come from 355 map points about 1.9 miles apart, so a pocket smaller than that can be missed or overstated.

Counties around Sawyer County

The nearest county rated sinkhole country is Vernon County, WI, about 157 miles south. 6 of the 6 closest counties land in the same band, so this is a regional pattern rather than a local quirk.

Rusk County, WI 27 mi south · 0% at surface
Washburn County, WI 31 mi west · 0% at surface
Price County, WI 40 mi east · 0% at surface
Barron County, WI 45 mi southwest · 0% at surface
Ashland County, WI 52 mi northeast · 0% at surface
Iron County, WI 53 mi northeast · 0% at surface

Against the rest of Wisconsin

Sawyer County ranks 61 of 72 in Wisconsin for soluble rock at the surface, and sits above 0% of US counties on that measure.