Vining, MN
How exposed is Vining to wildfire?
USFS scores Vining at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 118 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Vining's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
Vining's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 49.2% of Vining's 118 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 50.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Vining against the rest of the country
Compare Vining's two percentiles: 78th within Minnesota, only 53rd nationally — a gap of 25 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vining ranks 14,875 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 204 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Vining and the insurance market
Vining's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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 Vining
Vining's 50.8% 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 Vining's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 118 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vining. The exposure-zones guide covers what Vining's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.