New Hope, MN
How exposed is New Hope to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, New Hope lands at the 34th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 6,117 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New Hope at the 33rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where New Hope's buildings actually sit
95.1% of New Hope's 6,117 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 4.9% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 6,117 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How New Hope compares
There's little gap between New Hope's 34th national percentile and its 43rd percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Hope ranks 20,707 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,834 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 521 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
At the 34th national percentile, New Hope rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
New Hope's 95.1% 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
New Hope's 34th-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 New Hope, see the exposure-zones guide.