Brook Park, MN
How exposed is Brook Park to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Brook Park at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 118 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Brook Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
Where Brook Park's buildings actually sit
61% of Brook Park's 118 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 72 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 39% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Brook Park ranks
Brook Park's 94th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 70th 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, Brook Park ranks 9,547 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 60 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
Brook Park's 70th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Brook Park
Brook Park's 61% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Brook Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Brook Park's 9,547-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brook Park's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.