Vesta, MN
Vesta wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Vesta at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 239 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Vesta at the 22nd percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Vesta's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Vesta's buildings (82.9% of 239) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Vesta compares
Vesta's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (32nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (27th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vesta ranks 22,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,499 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 619 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Vesta
Vesta's moderate rating (27th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Vesta
Vesta's 82.9% 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
Vesta's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vesta, see the exposure-zones guide.