Bruno, MN
Bruno, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Bruno lands at the 47th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 120 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 Bruno at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Bruno's buildings actually sit
120 buildings are counted in Bruno, and 84.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Bruno ranks
Compare Bruno's two percentiles: 70th within Minnesota, only 47th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bruno ranks 16,705 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,147 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 277 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
Bruno's elevated rating (47th 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
Bruno's 84.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bruno's 16,705-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bruno, see the exposure-zones guide.