Goodview, MN
Goodview, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Goodview at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,842 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Goodview's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 28th percentile nationally.
Goodview's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Goodview's buildings (86.9%) 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.
Goodview against the rest of the country
Goodview scores 27th nationally and 32nd 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, Goodview ranks 22,885 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,941 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 617 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Goodview
Goodview's moderate rating (27th 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
Goodview's 86.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Goodview's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Goodview, see the exposure-zones guide.