Walker, MN
Walker wildfire risk explained
Walker sits at the 37th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 639 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Walker at the 36th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Walker's building exposure, zone by zone
55.6% of Walker's 639 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 41.9% Direct and 2.5% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Walker compares
There's little gap between Walker's 37th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walker ranks 19,790 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 465 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walker
At the 37th national percentile, Walker rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 55.6% of Walker's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Walker's 19,790-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walker, see the exposure-zones guide.