Foreston, MN
Foreston, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Foreston's 368 buildings earn a 61st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Foreston at the 62nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Foreston's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Foreston's 368 counted buildings, 53.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Foreston compares
Compare Foreston's two percentiles: 86th within Minnesota, only 61st nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Foreston ranks 12,448 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,905 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 129 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
Foreston's 61st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Foreston
With 53.3% of Foreston in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Foreston's 12,448-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Foreston, see the exposure-zones guide.