Milan, MN
How exposed is Milan to wildfire?
Milan's 256 buildings earn a 64th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Milan at the 55th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Where Milan's buildings actually sit
87.5% of Milan's 256 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Milan compares
Within Minnesota, Milan ranks higher (89th percentile) than it does nationally (64th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milan ranks 11,311 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,943 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 100 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Milan and the insurance market
At the 64th percentile nationally, Milan carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Milan
Milan's 87.5% 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 Milan's 11,311-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milan, see the exposure-zones guide.