Echo, MN
How exposed is Echo to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Echo at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 212 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Echo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 1st percentile nationally.
Echo's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 77.8% of Echo's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Echo compares
Echo scores 1st nationally and 1st within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Echo ranks 31,108 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 903 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 1st national percentile, Echo rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 77.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Echo gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 212 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Echo. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Echo, see the exposure-zones guide.