Chanhassen, MN
Chanhassen, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Chanhassen's 8,352 buildings earn a 42nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Chanhassen at the 41st percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Chanhassen's buildings (66.5% of 8,352) 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 8,352 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Chanhassen compares
Chanhassen's 59th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 42nd national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Chanhassen ranks 18,184 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,992 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 377 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Chanhassen
At the 42nd national percentile, Chanhassen rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Chanhassen
Chanhassen's 66.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Chanhassen's 18,184-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Chanhassen, see the exposure-zones guide.