Roseau, MN
How exposed is Roseau to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Roseau lands at the 53rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,632 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Roseau at the 54th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Roseau's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 82.2% of Roseau's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Roseau against the rest of the country
Compare Roseau's two percentiles: 78th within Minnesota, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roseau ranks 14,844 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,643 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 202 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Roseau and the insurance market
At the 53rd national percentile, Roseau rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Roseau
With 82.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Roseau 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 Roseau's 14,844-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Roseau, see the exposure-zones guide.