Nimrod, MN
Nimrod wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nimrod lands at the 77th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 115 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nimrod at the 73rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nimrod's building exposure, zone by zone
115 buildings are counted in Nimrod, and 100% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Nimrod against the rest of the country
Within Minnesota, Nimrod ranks higher (97th percentile) than it does nationally (77th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nimrod ranks 7,152 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,417 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 30 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nimrod's 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Nimrod
Nimrod's 100% 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 Nimrod's 7,152-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nimrod, see the exposure-zones guide.