Flensburg, MN
Flensburg wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Flensburg at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 307 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Flensburg at the 62nd percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where Flensburg's buildings actually sit
Of Flensburg's 307 counted buildings, 67.4% carry Direct exposure and only 32.6% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Flensburg against the rest of the country
Compare Flensburg's two percentiles: 88th within Minnesota, only 63rd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Flensburg ranks 11,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,446 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 112 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Flensburg
Flensburg's high rating (63rd 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 Flensburg
Because Direct exposure dominates in Flensburg (67.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 307 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Flensburg. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Flensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.