Waubun, MN
Waubun wildfire risk explained
Waubun's 316 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Waubun's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 73rd percentile nationally.
Waubun's building exposure, zone by zone
Waubun rates 75% Minimal exposure against just 25% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 316 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Waubun compares
Compare Waubun's two percentiles: 98th within Minnesota, only 80th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Waubun ranks 6,464 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,211 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 23 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Waubun
At the 80th percentile nationally, Waubun carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Waubun
With 75% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Waubun 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Waubun's 6,464-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Waubun, see the exposure-zones guide.