Hokah, MN
Hokah, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hokah at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 399 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hokah at the 40th percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 68.2% of Hokah's 399 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 31.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Hokah ranks
Hokah scores 40th nationally and 54th 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, Hokah ranks 19,066 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,229 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 423 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Hokah and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Hokah rates moderate 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 Hokah
Because 68.2% of Hokah's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hokah's 19,066-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hokah, see the exposure-zones guide.