You must be forgetting that Madison and Milwaukee counties are shitholes surrounded by deep red communities where there are more guns than people in many houses.
The shitstains in Dane and MKE county will destroy themselves and it will be very difficult for them to do any other damage outside of their immediate location. Survival manuals remind us that in a SHTF situation, the first 3 days they will panic, after that destroy their own area looting / stealing. After that packs of "alphas" will travel out from their epicenter on main roads as little as possible to steal supplies before retreating back. They will continue this behavior out 15-30 miles from their epicenter over time.
This is why in this type of situation you need to relocate yourself to 30 miles outside an urban center OFF of main roads.
Wisconsin is probably one of the safest places, tbh, if you're outside of Milwaukee.