Brooklyn Park, MN
Brooklyn Park wildfire risk explained
Brooklyn Park sits at the 36th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 22,950 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (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 Park at the 35th percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Brooklyn Park's buildings (91.6% of 22,950) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 22,950 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Brooklyn Park against the rest of the country
Brooklyn Park's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (46th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (36th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brooklyn Park ranks 20,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 574 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 492 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Brooklyn Park and the insurance market
Brooklyn Park's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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.
Hardening a home in Brooklyn Park
With 91.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Brooklyn Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Brooklyn Park's figures come from
Brooklyn Park's 36th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Brooklyn Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.