Prinsburg, MN
Prinsburg, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Prinsburg sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 309 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 Prinsburg at the 4th percentile, close to its 5th-percentile risk score.
Where Prinsburg's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 81.9% of Prinsburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 18.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Prinsburg compares
There's little gap between Prinsburg's 5th national percentile and its 8th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prinsburg ranks 29,987 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,397 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 845 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Prinsburg
Prinsburg's low rating (5th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.9% of Prinsburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Prinsburg's 5th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Prinsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.