Center City, MN
How exposed is Center City to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Center City at the 37th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 332 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Center City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 36th percentile nationally.
Center City's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Center City's buildings (51.5%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Center City against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Center City's 37th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Center City ranks 19,787 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,760 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 462 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Center City
Center City's moderate rating (37th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 51.5% of Center City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Center City's 19,787-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Center City, see the exposure-zones guide.