Kasota, MN
How exposed is Kasota to wildfire?
Kasota's 489 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kasota at the 33rd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
63.4% of Kasota's 489 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 36.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Kasota against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Kasota's 36th national percentile and its 47th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kasota ranks 20,201 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,549 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 489 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Kasota and the insurance market
Kasota's moderate wildfire rating (36th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kasota (63.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 489 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kasota. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kasota, see the exposure-zones guide.