Porter, MN
Porter, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Porter lands at the 24th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 191 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Porter at the 17th national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Porter's building exposure, zone by zone
Porter rates 71.7% Minimal exposure against just 28.3% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 191 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Porter against the rest of the country
Porter scores 24th nationally and 27th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Porter ranks 24,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,204 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 664 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Porter
Porter's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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
Porter's 71.7% 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.
Where Porter's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Porter's 24,112-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Porter's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.