New London, MN
New London wildfire risk explained
New London sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 655 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks New London at the 61st national percentile — 0 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
USFS puts 73.4% of New London's 655 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 26.3% Direct and 0.3% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where New London ranks
Compare New London's two percentiles: 87th within Minnesota, only 62nd nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New London ranks 12,066 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,132 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 116 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New London
New London's 62nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in New London
Because 73.4% of New London'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
New London's 62nd-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 New London, see the exposure-zones guide.