Parkers Prairie, MN
Parkers Prairie wildfire risk explained
Parkers Prairie's 646 buildings earn a 57th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parkers Prairie at the 50th national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Parkers Prairie's buildings (70% of 646) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Parkers Prairie ranks
Within Minnesota, Parkers Prairie ranks higher (83rd percentile) than it does nationally (57th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkers Prairie ranks 13,647 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 159 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parkers Prairie
Parkers Prairie's elevated wildfire rating (57th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Parkers Prairie's 70% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 646 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parkers Prairie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Parkers Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.