Genola, MN
Genola wildfire risk explained
Genola's 93 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Genola at the 48th percentile, close to its 47th-percentile risk score.
Where Genola's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 73.1% of Genola's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 26.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Genola compares
Compare Genola's two percentiles: 70th within Minnesota, only 47th nationally — a gap of 23 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Genola ranks 16,640 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,356 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 276 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Genola
At the 47th national percentile, Genola rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Genola's 73.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Genola's 16,640-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Genola, see the exposure-zones guide.