Elysian, MN
How exposed is Elysian to wildfire?
Elysian's 542 buildings earn a 28th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Elysian at the 26th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Elysian's building exposure, zone by zone
69.9% of Elysian's 542 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Elysian against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Elysian's 28th national percentile and its 33rd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Elysian ranks 22,785 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,683 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 610 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Elysian and the insurance market
Elysian's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 69.9% of Elysian 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 Elysian's 22,785-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Elysian, see the exposure-zones guide.