Annandale, MN
Annandale, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Annandale lands at the 38th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,586 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Annandale at the 34th percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Annandale's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 80.5% of Annandale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 19.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Annandale ranks
Annandale's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (50th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (38th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Annandale ranks 19,629 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,808 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 453 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Annandale and the insurance market
At the 38th national percentile, Annandale rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Annandale's 80.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Annandale's 19,629-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Annandale, see the exposure-zones guide.