Sherburn, MN
How exposed is Sherburn to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sherburn lands at the 18th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 675 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sherburn's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 14th percentile nationally.
Where Sherburn's buildings actually sit
Sherburn rates 70.2% Minimal exposure against just 29.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 675 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Sherburn ranks
There's little gap between Sherburn's 18th national percentile and its 22nd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sherburn ranks 25,720 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,927 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 718 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Sherburn and the insurance market
Sherburn's low rating (18th 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
Sherburn's 70.2% 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.
Where Sherburn's figures come from
Sherburn's 18th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sherburn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.