Grove City, MN
How exposed is Grove City to wildfire?
Grove City sits at the 25th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 434 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Grove City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 22nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.2% of Grove City's 434 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Grove City compares
Grove City scores 25th nationally and 29th 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, Grove City ranks 23,733 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,565 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 645 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Grove City and the insurance market
Grove City's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Grove City
With 93.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Grove City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Grove City's 25th-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 Grove City, see the exposure-zones guide.