Miesville, MN
How exposed is Miesville to wildfire?
Miesville's 138 buildings earn a 10th-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 Miesville at the 9th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Miesville's buildings (60.1% of 138) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Miesville against the rest of the country
Miesville scores 10th nationally and 13th 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, Miesville ranks 28,439 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,366 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 794 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Miesville and the insurance market
At the 10th national percentile, Miesville 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 Miesville
Miesville's 60.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Miesville's 28,439-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Miesville, see the exposure-zones guide.