What Barron County, WI's soil rates for a septic system

Very limited

95.7% of Barron County, WI's surveyed soil comes back "Very limited" in USDA's own SSURGO data, the county's dominant condition for a septic absorption field. This is the reading that pushes a project toward an engineered system rather than a conventional one, and it covers 95.7% of Barron County's land. Barron County covers 863.083 square miles and counts 46,810 residents.

This is a county figure, not a parcel figure

Barron County's rating is an average across the whole county, not a promise about any one lot inside it. A site-specific perc test, usually $750-$1,850, is what a health department will actually require before permitting a lot in Barron County.

System cost, conventional vs. engineered

Given Barron County's rating, plan for the engineered-system range rather than the conventional one. The engineered-system range, $10,000-$40,000 (mound or aerobic treatment), is the more realistic number to plan around, against $3,000-$8,000 for a conventional system on the rare lot that passes.

Barron County's rank among Wisconsin counties

Nationally, Barron County, WI is the 564-most-constrained of 3,058 rated counties for septic soil. Within Wisconsin alone it ranks 14 of 72.

Before you act on this

How this rating is built, and its real limits · Conventional vs. engineered septic systems