Clinton, MN
How exposed is Clinton to wildfire?
USFS scores Clinton at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 356 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clinton at the 13th national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clinton's buildings actually sit
Most of Clinton's buildings (74.4% of 356) 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.
How Clinton compares
There's little gap between Clinton's 19th national percentile and its 23rd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clinton ranks 25,406 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,160 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 703 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Clinton and the insurance market
At the 19th national percentile, Clinton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Clinton's 74.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 356 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clinton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clinton, see the exposure-zones guide.