Brooklyn Center, MN
How exposed is Brooklyn Center to wildfire?
USFS scores Brooklyn Center at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 11,439 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Brooklyn Center at the 34th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
Brooklyn Center's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 96.1% of Brooklyn Center's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 3.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 11,439 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Brooklyn Center compares
Brooklyn Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (45th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (35th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn Center ranks 20,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,378 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 502 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Brooklyn Center's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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
Brooklyn Center's 96.1% 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.
Where Brooklyn Center's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 11,439 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Brooklyn Center. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brooklyn Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.