Blomkest, MN
Blomkest wildfire risk explained
Blomkest sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 145 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blomkest at the 4th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Blomkest's building exposure, zone by zone
81.4% of Blomkest's 145 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Blomkest compares
There's little gap between Blomkest's 5th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blomkest ranks 29,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,081 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 843 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blomkest
Blomkest's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.4% of Blomkest outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blomkest's 29,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blomkest, see the exposure-zones guide.