Strathcona, MN
Strathcona wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Strathcona at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 55 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Strathcona at the 89th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Strathcona's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Strathcona's 55 counted buildings, 67.3% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Strathcona compares
Strathcona scores 88th nationally and 99th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Strathcona ranks 3,846 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,789 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 9 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Strathcona
Strathcona's 88th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Strathcona (67.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Strathcona's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Strathcona, see the exposure-zones guide.