Frontenac, MN
Frontenac, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Frontenac lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 215 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Frontenac's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 26th percentile nationally.
Frontenac's building exposure, zone by zone
57.7% of Frontenac's 215 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 42.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Frontenac compares
Frontenac scores 26th nationally and 31st 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, Frontenac ranks 23,324 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,310 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 633 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Frontenac and the insurance market
Frontenac's moderate wildfire rating (26th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 57.7% of Frontenac's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Frontenac's 23,324-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Frontenac, see the exposure-zones guide.