Kenyon, MN
Kenyon wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Kenyon at the 8th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 1,063 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kenyon's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
79.4% of Kenyon's 1,063 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Kenyon compares
There's little gap between Kenyon's 8th national percentile and its 12th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kenyon ranks 28,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,503 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 809 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Kenyon and the insurance market
Kenyon's low rating (8th 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
With 79.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Kenyon 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kenyon's 28,878-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kenyon, see the exposure-zones guide.