Nisswa, MN
How exposed is Nisswa to wildfire?
Nisswa sits at the 52nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 2,141 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Nisswa at the 49th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Nisswa's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 81.4% of Nisswa's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 18.6% Minimal share — a profile where 1,742 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Nisswa compares
Within Minnesota, Nisswa ranks higher (77th percentile) than it does nationally (52nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nisswa ranks 15,251 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,091 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 217 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Nisswa
Nisswa's elevated wildfire rating (52nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Nisswa
Nisswa's 81.4% 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 Nisswa's 15,251-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Nisswa, see the exposure-zones guide.