Lansing, MN
Lansing wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lansing at the 18th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 165 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lansing at the 17th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lansing's buildings actually sit
Lansing rates 57.6% Minimal exposure against just 42.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 165 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Lansing compares
Lansing scores 18th nationally and 21st 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, Lansing ranks 25,847 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,221 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 720 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lansing
Lansing's low rating (18th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Lansing
Lansing's 57.6% 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 Lansing's figures come from
Lansing's 18th-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 Lansing's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.