Langlade County, WI Shrink-Swell Risk

What Langlade County, WI's soil means for a foundation

Low

USDA's SSURGO data puts Langlade County, WI's soil at "Low" shrink-swell potential, an area-weighted linear extensibility of 0.89% across 99.1% of the county's surveyed land. That's as favorable a county-level reading as this dataset produces - standard foundation practice, pending one lot's own geotechnical report.

This is a county figure, not a lot figure

USDA's survey covers the whole of Langlade County, WI at once, not any single address. A local geotechnical report, typically $1,000-$5,000 (around $2,700 typical), is the only way to know what one lot in Langlade County will actually do.

Report cost vs. repair cost

With Langlade County, WI rating "Low", a geotechnical report is still worthwhile before a build, just less urgent than in a high-risk county. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

How Langlade County, WI compares

Nationally, Langlade County, WI is the 2,946-most-constrained of 3,085 rated counties for shrink-swell soil. Within Wisconsin alone it ranks 64 of 72. Langlade County, WI is 871 square miles with a population of 19,535.

See how another county compares

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Barton County, KS and Saluda County, SC are worth a look for comparison.

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More of Wisconsin

Every county in Wisconsin is on this site, including Dodge County, WI and Green Lake County, WI. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.