Glyndon, MN
Glyndon, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Glyndon lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 717 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glyndon at the 37th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Glyndon's buildings (87.6% of 717) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Glyndon compares
There's little gap between Glyndon's 41st national percentile and its 55th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glyndon ranks 18,682 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 406 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Glyndon and the insurance market
Glyndon's elevated wildfire rating (41st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 87.6% of Glyndon outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Glyndon's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glyndon, see the exposure-zones guide.