Walnut Grove, MN
Walnut Grove wildfire risk explained
Walnut Grove's 489 buildings earn a 9th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Walnut Grove at the 7th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 76.3% of Walnut Grove's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Walnut Grove ranks
There's little gap between Walnut Grove's 9th national percentile and its 13th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnut Grove ranks 28,688 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,550 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 800 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove's low rating (9th 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
With 76.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Walnut Grove gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 489 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walnut Grove. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Walnut Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.