Minneapolis, MN
How exposed is Minneapolis to wildfire?
USFS scores Minneapolis at the 28th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 141,790 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Minneapolis at the 29th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Minneapolis's buildings (98% of 141,790) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 141,790 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Minneapolis against the rest of the country
Minneapolis's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (28th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minneapolis ranks 22,632 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 42 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 605 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Minneapolis and the insurance market
Minneapolis's moderate rating (28th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Minneapolis
Minneapolis's 98% 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
Minneapolis's 28th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Minneapolis, see the exposure-zones guide.