Crookston, MN
How exposed is Crookston to wildfire?
Crookston's 3,700 buildings earn a 37th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crookston at the 35th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Crookston's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 90% of Crookston's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Crookston ranks
Crookston's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (48th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (37th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crookston ranks 20,011 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 475 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Crookston and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Crookston rates moderate 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
Even with 90% of Crookston 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 Crookston's 20,011-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crookston, see the exposure-zones guide.