Le Sueur, MN
Le Sueur, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Le Sueur at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,961 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Le Sueur's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 30th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Le Sueur's buildings (82.4%) 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.
Le Sueur against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Le Sueur's 30th national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Le Sueur ranks 21,931 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,587 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 577 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Le Sueur and the insurance market
Le Sueur's moderate rating (30th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Le Sueur's 82.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Le Sueur's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Le Sueur's 21,931-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Le Sueur's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.