Aldrich, MN
Aldrich, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Aldrich's 61 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Aldrich at the 64th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 75.4% of Aldrich's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 24.6% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 46 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Aldrich against the rest of the country
Within Minnesota, Aldrich ranks higher (92nd percentile) than it does nationally (67th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aldrich ranks 10,400 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,622 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 77 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Aldrich
Aldrich's 67th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 75.4% of Aldrich in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Aldrich's 10,400-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Aldrich, see the exposure-zones guide.