St. Bonifacius, MN
How exposed is St. Bonifacius to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Bonifacius at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 888 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 St. Bonifacius at the 48th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
St. Bonifacius's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of St. Bonifacius's buildings (75%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where St. Bonifacius ranks
St. Bonifacius's 75th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 51st 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, St. Bonifacius ranks 15,564 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,834 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 232 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in St. Bonifacius
St. Bonifacius's elevated wildfire rating (51st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in St. Bonifacius
St. Bonifacius's 75% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind St. Bonifacius's 15,564-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond St. Bonifacius, see the exposure-zones guide.