Anoka, MN
How exposed is Anoka to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Anoka lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 6,432 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Anoka at the 44th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Anoka rates 93.2% Minimal exposure against just 6.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,432 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,432 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Anoka ranks
Within Minnesota, Anoka ranks higher (64th percentile) than it does nationally (45th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Anoka ranks 17,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,693 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 329 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Anoka's elevated wildfire rating (45th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Anoka
Anoka's 93.2% 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.
Where Anoka's figures come from
Anoka's 45th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Anoka's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.