Dodge Center, MN
Dodge Center, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Dodge Center sits at the 9th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,452 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dodge Center's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 9th percentile nationally.
Where Dodge Center's buildings actually sit
Dodge Center rates 84.2% Minimal exposure against just 15.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,452 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Dodge Center ranks
Dodge Center scores 9th nationally and 13th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dodge Center ranks 28,687 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,384 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 799 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dodge Center
Dodge Center's low rating (9th 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
Dodge Center's 84.2% 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 Dodge Center's figures come from
Dodge Center's 9th-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 Dodge Center's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.