Kandiyohi, MN
Kandiyohi wildfire risk explained
Kandiyohi sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 294 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kandiyohi at the 22nd percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 93.5% of Kandiyohi's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Kandiyohi compares
Kandiyohi scores 24th nationally and 28th 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, Kandiyohi ranks 24,019 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,790 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 658 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kandiyohi
Kandiyohi's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 93.5% of Kandiyohi outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 294 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kandiyohi. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kandiyohi, see the exposure-zones guide.