Lamberton, MN
How exposed is Lamberton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lamberton at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 574 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 Lamberton at the 21st percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
Where Lamberton's buildings actually sit
Lamberton rates 85.2% Minimal exposure against just 14.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 574 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Lamberton compares
There's little gap between Lamberton's 25th national percentile and its 29th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lamberton ranks 23,797 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 650 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Lamberton and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Lamberton rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lamberton's 85.2% 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.
Where Lamberton's figures come from
Lamberton's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lamberton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.