Birchwood Village, MN
How exposed is Birchwood Village to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Birchwood Village at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 457 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Birchwood Village at the 37th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Birchwood Village's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Birchwood Village: 62.8% of its 457 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 37.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Birchwood Village compares
Birchwood Village scores 36th nationally and 46th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Birchwood Village ranks 20,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,130 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 487 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Birchwood Village
At the 36th national percentile, Birchwood Village 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
Birchwood Village's 62.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 457 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Birchwood Village. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Birchwood Village, see the exposure-zones guide.