Lewiston, MN
How exposed is Lewiston to wildfire?
Lewiston's 804 buildings earn a 5th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lewiston at the 5th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 14.9% of Lewiston's 804 buildings carry Direct exposure and 1.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 84% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Lewiston compares
Lewiston scores 5th nationally and 8th 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, Lewiston ranks 29,853 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,598 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 839 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Lewiston's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
Hardening a home in Lewiston
Lewiston's 84% 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.
More on how this number was built
Lewiston's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lewiston, see the exposure-zones guide.