Clarks Grove, MN
Clarks Grove wildfire risk explained
Clarks Grove sits at the 10th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 453 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clarks Grove at the 8th percentile, close to its 10th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Clarks Grove's buildings (90.7% of 453) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Clarks Grove ranks
There's little gap between Clarks Grove's 10th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarks Grove ranks 28,438 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 793 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
At the 10th national percentile, Clarks Grove rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Clarks Grove
Even with 90.7% of Clarks Grove 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clarks Grove's 28,438-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarks Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.