Byron, MN
Byron wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Byron at the 5th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 2,202 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byron at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Byron's buildings actually sit
Only 20.2% of Byron's 2,202 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Byron compares
Byron's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (8th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (5th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byron ranks 29,986 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,931 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 844 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
Byron's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 79.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Byron gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Byron's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Byron, see the exposure-zones guide.