17,187 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.7% since 2020)
822 square miles of land · 21 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
5 active community water systems list Burnett County in the area they serve, reporting 3,454 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GRANTSBURG WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI8070310 | 1,460 served |
| SIREN WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI8070311 | 941 served |
| WEBSTER WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI8070312 | 652 served |
| DANBURY SANITARY DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WI8070012 | 286 served |
| GRANTSBURG MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY groundwater · private · WI8070023 | 115 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 46 people were held in Burnett County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 19.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Burnett County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $27.8 million — $20.4 million to run schools, about $11,576 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.2 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.7 million.
Spent $13 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $16,170 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.5 million.
Spent $9.6 million — $8.1 million to run schools, about $19,551 per student, plus $233,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.5 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Burnett County about $11.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
68 bridges in Burnett County: 28 in good condition, 35 fair, and 5 poor (7.4%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| STH 35 over YELLOW RIVER · built 1986 | 5,600 vehicles a day |
| CTH F over CLAM RIVER · built 1972 | 235 vehicles a day |
| LRD EMERSON RD over YELLOW RIVER · built 1998 | 115 vehicles a day |
| LRD NORTH FORK DRI over WOOD CREEK · built 1925 | 60 vehicles a day |
| LRD BURNIKEL RD over CLAM RIVER · built 1929 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.7 million of work in Burnett County in fiscal 2025, about $404 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Wisconsin are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Burnett County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Burnett County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Pine County, MN (25 mi) · Washburn County (28 mi) · Polk County (28 mi) · Chisago County, MN (36 mi) · Barron County (39 mi) · Kanabec County, MN (45 mi).