Nashua, MN
How exposed is Nashua to wildfire?
Nashua sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 79 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Nashua's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 6th percentile nationally.
Nashua's building exposure, zone by zone
79 buildings are counted in Nashua, and 65.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 34.2% rated Minimal.
How Nashua compares
Nashua's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashua ranks 29,099 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,928 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 816 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nashua
At the 8th national percentile, Nashua rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Nashua's 65.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nashua's 29,099-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nashua, see the exposure-zones guide.