Brownton, MN
How exposed is Brownton to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Brownton lands at the 19th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 495 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 Brownton at the 13th percentile, close to its 19th-percentile risk score.
Brownton's building exposure, zone by zone
Brownton rates 97% Minimal exposure against just 3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 495 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Brownton compares
Brownton scores 19th nationally and 22nd 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, Brownton ranks 25,656 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,443 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 715 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brownton
Brownton's low wildfire rating (19th 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 97% of Brownton 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 495 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brownton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Brownton, see the exposure-zones guide.