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Florence County, Wisconsin

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet WI037 · Florence County 44 sys · 711 viol · #3000/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-BOTTOM · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-NONE · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-MOST

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 15.9% health
  • RANK-BOTTOM #3000/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-NONE No UCMR5 set
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-MID 44 systems
  • BOOK-MOST 6/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Forest County (+ 0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Florence County ranks #3,000 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #71 of 71 counties in Wisconsin. See methodology · corpus placement.

Florence County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 15.9% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . No UCMR5 tests in this extract for Florence County . Population served ranks #3,000 of 3,254 · #71 of 71 in Wisconsin.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Florence County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Florence County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Bayfield · lowest Florence · this county Kenosha · near Milwaukee · highest 52.1% 83.1% 84.1% 84.2% 84.6% 84.8% 95.3%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

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Lower-flagged peers for Florence County

Cross-state counties nearest Florence County on flagged-system share (84.1%) and cumulative violation count (711). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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