Milroy, MN
Milroy wildfire risk explained
Milroy's 206 buildings earn a 1st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Milroy at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
Milroy's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 7.8% of Milroy's 206 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 92.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Milroy against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Milroy's 1st national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milroy ranks 31,340 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 911 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Milroy and the insurance market
At the 1st national percentile, Milroy 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 Milroy
Even with 92.2% of Milroy 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Milroy's 31,340-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milroy, see the exposure-zones guide.