Ceylon, MN
How exposed is Ceylon to wildfire?
USFS scores Ceylon at the 15th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 298 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 Ceylon at the 9th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
Where Ceylon's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 71.5% of Ceylon's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 28.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Ceylon against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Ceylon's 15th national percentile and its 19th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ceylon ranks 26,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,683 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 737 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ceylon
Ceylon's low wildfire rating (15th 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 Ceylon
With 71.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Ceylon 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
Ceylon's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ceylon, see the exposure-zones guide.