State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Wisconsin

GradeLocal lists 1,521 Wisconsin restaurants. Their average score is 75.5, a C. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

1,521restaurants listed

75.5 · Caverage score

1counties covered

Oct 9, 2026latest inspection date

See every Wisconsin grade

Who inspects restaurants in Wisconsin

Public Health Madison & Dane County. Violation counts.

Coverage: Madison (Dane County), 1 of 72 counties. All sources

What Wisconsin publishes

The agencies behind our Wisconsin listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Wisconsin score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Wisconsin restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Wisconsin data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
0 violations	A	317
1 violation	B	234
2 violations	B	208
3 violations	C	171
4 violations	C	122
5 violations	C	116
6 violations	D	91
8 violations	D	68

How Wisconsin restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 1,521 listings.

317

20.8% · grade A

442

29.1% · grade B

409

26.9% · grade C

353

23.2% · grade D

Inspection dates in our Wisconsin data run from May 23, 2024 to Oct 9, 2026. 1,170 of the 1,521 listings (76.9%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 16, 2026. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Wisconsin

Every A-grade place in our Wisconsin data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Wisconsin

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Dane County	1,521	75.5 · C

Questions about Wisconsin grades

Who inspects restaurants in Wisconsin?

Public Health Madison & Dane County. Violation counts.

What does Wisconsin publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Wisconsin?

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Wisconsin restaurants are on GradeLocal?

1,521 restaurants in 1 county. The average score is 75.5, a C. 20.8% have an A.

How current are the Wisconsin grades?

Inspection dates in our Wisconsin data run from May 23, 2024 to Oct 9, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.