Inver Grove Heights, MN
How exposed is Inver Grove Heights to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Inver Grove Heights lands at the 39th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 12,567 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Inver Grove Heights's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
Where Inver Grove Heights's buildings actually sit
44.2% of Inver Grove Heights's 12,567 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 27.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 12,567 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Inver Grove Heights against the rest of the country
Inver Grove Heights scores 39th nationally and 52nd 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, Inver Grove Heights ranks 19,316 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,223 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 441 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Inver Grove Heights's moderate rating (39th 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
Inver Grove Heights's 44.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,567 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Inver Grove Heights. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Inver Grove Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.