Crown College, MN
Crown College, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crown College sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 21 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crown College at the 50th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Crown College: 95.2% of its 21 buildings, versus 4.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap. This is a small settlement by building count — 21 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Crown College compares
Within Minnesota, Crown College ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (53rd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crown College ranks 14,973 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 207 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Crown College and the insurance market
At the 53rd national percentile, Crown College rates elevated 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
Crown College's 95.2% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Crown College's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crown College's 14,973-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Crown College (21 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.