Wanamingo, MN
Wanamingo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Wanamingo at the 8th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 618 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wanamingo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 7th percentile nationally.
Wanamingo's building exposure, zone by zone
Wanamingo rates 75.4% Minimal exposure against just 24.4% Direct and 0.2% Indirect — of 618 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Wanamingo compares
Wanamingo's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (11th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wanamingo ranks 29,123 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,590 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 817 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wanamingo
Wanamingo's low wildfire rating (8th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Wanamingo's 75.4% 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 Wanamingo's 29,123-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wanamingo, see the exposure-zones guide.