Eden Prairie, MN
Eden Prairie wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eden Prairie lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 17,401 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eden Prairie's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 38th percentile nationally.
Eden Prairie's building exposure, zone by zone
62.3% of Eden Prairie's 17,401 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 17.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 17,401 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Eden Prairie compares
Compare Eden Prairie's two percentiles: 56th within Minnesota, only 41st nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eden Prairie ranks 18,653 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 817 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 403 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Eden Prairie and the insurance market
Eden Prairie's elevated rating (41st 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
Eden Prairie's 62.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17,401 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Eden Prairie. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Eden Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.