Canton, MN
Canton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Canton at the 10th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 298 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canton at the 10th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Canton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.6% of Canton's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Canton against the rest of the country
Canton scores 10th nationally and 14th 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, Canton ranks 28,239 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,682 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 786 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Canton and the insurance market
Canton's low wildfire rating (10th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 90.6% of Canton 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 298 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Canton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Canton, see the exposure-zones guide.