Pierz, MN
Pierz, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pierz sits at the 54th 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 707 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 Pierz at the 53rd percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Pierz's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 13.4% of Pierz's 707 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Pierz compares
Within Minnesota, Pierz ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (54th) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pierz ranks 14,591 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,583 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 191 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Pierz and the insurance market
Pierz's elevated wildfire rating (54th 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
With 86.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pierz gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pierz's 14,591-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pierz, see the exposure-zones guide.