Canby, MN
Canby, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Canby at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,267 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Canby at the 32nd percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Canby rates 80.4% Minimal exposure against just 19.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,267 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Canby against the rest of the country
Canby scores 37th nationally and 49th 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, Canby ranks 19,851 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 467 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Canby and the insurance market
Canby's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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
Canby's 80.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canby's 19,851-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Canby, see the exposure-zones guide.