Hastings, MN
How exposed is Hastings to wildfire?
Hastings's 8,021 buildings earn a 28th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hastings at the 28th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Hastings's buildings actually sit
Hastings rates 50.5% Minimal exposure against just 13.1% Direct and 36.4% Indirect — of 8,021 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 8,021 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Hastings ranks
There's little gap between Hastings's 28th national percentile and its 34th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hastings ranks 22,721 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,103 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 606 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hastings
Hastings's moderate rating (28th 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 Hastings
Hastings's 50.5% 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
Hastings's 28th-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 Hastings, see the exposure-zones guide.