Pease, MN
Pease wildfire risk explained
Pease sits at the 58th 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 136 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pease at the 60th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Pease's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Pease (65.4% of 136 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34.6% sit in the Direct zone.
Pease against the rest of the country
Compare Pease's two percentiles: 84th within Minnesota, only 58th nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pease ranks 13,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,447 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 143 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pease
Pease's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 65.4% of Pease's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Pease's figures come from
Pease's 58th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pease's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.