Meadowlands, MN
Meadowlands wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Meadowlands at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 116 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Meadowlands at the 37th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Meadowlands's buildings actually sit
116 buildings are counted in Meadowlands, and 65.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 34.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Meadowlands against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Meadowlands's 37th national percentile and its 49th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Meadowlands ranks 19,853 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,362 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 469 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Meadowlands's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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
Because 65.5% of Meadowlands's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Meadowlands's 37th-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 Meadowlands, see the exposure-zones guide.