Janesville, MN
How exposed is Janesville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Janesville lands at the 16th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,146 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Janesville at the 11th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Janesville's buildings actually sit
Only 17.5% of Janesville's 1,146 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 82.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Janesville ranks
Janesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (20th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Janesville ranks 26,475 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,984 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 733 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Janesville and the insurance market
At the 16th national percentile, Janesville rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 82.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Janesville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,146 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Janesville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Janesville, see the exposure-zones guide.