No injuries in house fire near Mount Horeb, sheriff’s office says

Mt Horeb House Fire
Smoke rises from a house fire near Mt. Horeb on August 8, 2022. WISC-TV/Channel3000.

MOUNT HOREB, Wis. — No one was injured in a house fire near Mount Horeb Monday evening, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said.

A neighbor reported seeing smoke coming from the home in the 2900 block of Town Hall Road east of Mount Horeb around 7:30 p.m., the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

No one was inside the house at the time.

The home appears to be a total loss, with damaged estimated at $450,000, the release said.

Investigators are still working to figure out what sparked the fire.