Kenneth, MN
Kenneth, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kenneth at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 89 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kenneth at the 6th percentile, close to its 8th-percentile risk score.
Where Kenneth's buildings actually sit
Kenneth rates 56.2% Minimal exposure against just 43.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 89 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Kenneth compares
Kenneth scores 8th nationally and 11th 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, Kenneth ranks 28,999 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,534 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 813 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Kenneth and the insurance market
Kenneth's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
Hardening a home in Kenneth
With 56.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kenneth 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 89 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kenneth. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenneth, see the exposure-zones guide.