Maple Plain, MN
How exposed is Maple Plain to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Maple Plain at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 800 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Maple Plain's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
Where Maple Plain's buildings actually sit
800 buildings are counted in Maple Plain, and 58.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.4% in Direct exposure or the 30.1% rated Minimal.
How Maple Plain compares
Compare Maple Plain's two percentiles: 83rd within Minnesota, only 57th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maple Plain ranks 13,584 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,634 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 154 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Maple Plain
At the 57th national percentile, Maple Plain rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Maple Plain's 58.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Maple Plain's 13,584-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Maple Plain, see the exposure-zones guide.