Menahga, MN
Menahga, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Menahga at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 944 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Menahga at the 74th percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Menahga's buildings actually sit
52.5% of Menahga's 944 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 46.9% Direct and 0.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Menahga compares
Menahga's 98th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 80th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Menahga ranks 6,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 22 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
Menahga's 80th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Menahga
Because 52.5% of Menahga's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Menahga's 6,463-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Menahga, see the exposure-zones guide.