Erskine, MN
Erskine wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Erskine at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 378 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Erskine at the 84th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Erskine's building exposure, zone by zone
53.7% of Erskine's 378 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.9% Direct and 3.4% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Erskine compares
There's little gap between Erskine's 86th national percentile and its 99th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Erskine ranks 4,439 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 13 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Erskine
Erskine's very high rating (86th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Erskine
Erskine's 53.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 378 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Erskine. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Erskine, see the exposure-zones guide.