Royalton, MN
How exposed is Royalton to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Royalton at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 618 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Royalton at the 49th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 29% of Royalton's 618 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Royalton against the rest of the country
Royalton's 76th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 52nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Royalton ranks 15,252 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,589 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 218 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Royalton
At the 52nd national percentile, Royalton rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 71% of Royalton 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Royalton's 15,252-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Royalton, see the exposure-zones guide.