Sacred Heart, MN
How exposed is Sacred Heart to wildfire?
Sacred Heart sits at the 13th 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 398 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sacred Heart's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 8.8% of Sacred Heart's 398 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 91.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Sacred Heart ranks
There's little gap between Sacred Heart's 13th national percentile and its 17th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sacred Heart ranks 27,362 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,249 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 759 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart's low rating (13th 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
Sacred Heart's 91.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sacred Heart's 27,362-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Sacred Heart, see the exposure-zones guide.