Hendricks, MN
Hendricks, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hendricks lands at the 36th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 578 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hendricks at the 28th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Hendricks's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 66.3% of Hendricks's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 33.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Hendricks against the rest of the country
Hendricks's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (47th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hendricks ranks 20,071 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,128 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 481 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Hendricks and the insurance market
Hendricks's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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
Hendricks's 66.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hendricks's 20,071-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hendricks, see the exposure-zones guide.