“Excessive alcohol use isn’t a laughing matter, and it isn’t something to be proud of,” she said.

Edging out Madison are, in ascending order, Green Bay, Oshkosh and, at the top spot, Appleton.

The national average for people who drink “unhealthy amounts of alcohol,” according to 24/7, is 18 percent. The range goes from 9.2 percent in Provo-Orem, Utah, to Appleton’s impressive 26.8 percent.

To find a non-Wisconsin drunk city in the top ten, you have to go to No. 5, Fargo, N.D., which is followed by — you guessed it — two more Wisconsin cities: La Crosse and Fond du Lac.

To come up with the list, 24/7 Wall St., a news and opinion content provider for news sites like Time, USAToday and MarketWatch, used self-reports of binge and heavy drinking from County Health Rankings & Roadmaps, a collaboration between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

The benchmarks were the CDC’s definitions for binge drinking — four or more drinks for women and five or more drinks for men — and heavy drinking — 15 or more drinks per week for men and eight or more for women.