Granite Falls, MN
Granite Falls, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Granite Falls at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,565 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Granite Falls's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
Granite Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
Granite Falls rates 89.8% Minimal exposure against just 10.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,565 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Granite Falls against the rest of the country
Compare Granite Falls's two percentiles: 67th within Minnesota, only 46th nationally — a gap of 21 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Granite Falls ranks 17,114 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,902 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 305 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Granite Falls
At the 46th national percentile, Granite Falls rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Granite Falls
Granite Falls's 89.8% 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
Granite Falls's 46th-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 Granite Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.