Meire Grove, MN
How exposed is Meire Grove to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Meire Grove lands at the 26th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 126 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Meire Grove at the 25th percentile, close to its 26th-percentile risk score.
Where Meire Grove's buildings actually sit
65.1% of Meire Grove's 126 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 34.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Meire Grove ranks
There's little gap between Meire Grove's 26th national percentile and its 30th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meire Grove ranks 23,450 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 638 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Meire Grove
Meire Grove's moderate wildfire rating (26th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 65.1% of Meire Grove outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 126 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Meire Grove. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Meire Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.