Lanesboro, MN
Lanesboro wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lanesboro at the 22nd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 570 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 Lanesboro at the 23rd percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
Lanesboro's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Lanesboro's buildings (80.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Lanesboro compares
There's little gap between Lanesboro's 22nd national percentile and its 25th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lanesboro ranks 24,618 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,250 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 682 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lanesboro
Lanesboro's moderate wildfire rating (22nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Lanesboro (80.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 570 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Lanesboro. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Lanesboro, see the exposure-zones guide.