Mabel, MN
How exposed is Mabel to wildfire?
Mabel sits at the 11th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 510 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mabel at the 11th 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
Mabel rates 97.1% Minimal exposure against just 2.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 510 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Mabel ranks
Mabel's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (15th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mabel ranks 27,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,169 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 777 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mabel
At the 11th national percentile, Mabel rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Mabel
Mabel's 97.1% 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
Mabel's 11th-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 Mabel, see the exposure-zones guide.