East Grand Forks, MN
East Grand Forks, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
East Grand Forks's 4,133 buildings earn a 34th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, East Grand Forks's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 34th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of East Grand Forks's buildings (94% of 4,133) 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.
East Grand Forks against the rest of the country
There's little gap between East Grand Forks's 34th national percentile and its 43rd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Grand Forks ranks 20,704 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,115 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 518 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in East Grand Forks
East Grand Forks's moderate wildfire rating (34th 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.
Hardening a home in East Grand Forks
East Grand Forks's 94% 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
East Grand Forks's 34th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Grand Forks, see the exposure-zones guide.