New Auburn, MN
New Auburn wildfire risk explained
New Auburn's 322 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Auburn at the 22nd percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where New Auburn's buildings actually sit
Only 11.2% of New Auburn's 322 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How New Auburn compares
There's little gap between New Auburn's 27th national percentile and its 32nd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Auburn ranks 23,004 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,034 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 623 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Auburn
New Auburn's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 88.8% of New Auburn 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 322 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Auburn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond New Auburn, see the exposure-zones guide.