Brandon, MN
Brandon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brandon at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 347 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brandon at the 28th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Brandon's buildings (84.2% of 347) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Brandon compares
Brandon scores 30th nationally and 36th 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, Brandon ranks 22,186 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 585 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brandon
Brandon's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Brandon's 84.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 347 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brandon. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brandon, see the exposure-zones guide.