Tintah, MN
Tintah, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tintah at the 14th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 97 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Tintah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 11th percentile nationally.
Tintah's building exposure, zone by zone
Tintah rates 63.9% Minimal exposure against just 36.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 97 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Tintah ranks
Tintah's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (18th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (14th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tintah ranks 27,200 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 752 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tintah
Tintah's low rating (14th 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
Tintah's 63.9% 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 Tintah's 27,200-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tintah, see the exposure-zones guide.