Belview, MN
Belview wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Belview lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 252 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 Belview at the 1st percentile, close to its 2nd-percentile risk score.
Belview's building exposure, zone by zone
79.4% of Belview's 252 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Belview compares
Belview scores 2nd nationally and 1st within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belview ranks 31,050 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 902 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Belview and the insurance market
Belview's low wildfire rating (2nd 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 Belview
Belview's 79.4% 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 Belview's figures come from
Belview's 2nd-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 Belview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.