Barnesville, MN
Barnesville, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Barnesville lands at the 60th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,329 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 Barnesville at the 58th percentile, close to its 60th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.1% of Barnesville's 1,329 buildings carry Direct exposure and 2% carry Indirect; the remaining 83.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Barnesville compares
Barnesville's 86th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 60th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Barnesville ranks 12,631 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,934 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 133 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Barnesville and the insurance market
Barnesville's elevated rating (60th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Barnesville
With 83.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Barnesville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Barnesville's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Barnesville, see the exposure-zones guide.