Hazel Run, MN
Hazel Run, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hazel Run at the 1st national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 64 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hazel Run at the 1st national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 73.4% of Hazel Run's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 26.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Hazel Run ranks
Hazel Run scores 1st nationally and 1st 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, Hazel Run ranks 31,109 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,506 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 904 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Hazel Run and the insurance market
Hazel Run's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hazel Run's 73.4% 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
Hazel Run's 1st-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 Hazel Run, see the exposure-zones guide.