Newport, MN
Newport wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Newport at the 30th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,027 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Newport at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Newport's buildings actually sit
Only 26.7% of Newport's 2,027 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 73.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Newport ranks
Newport scores 30th nationally and 36th within Minnesota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Newport ranks 22,124 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,391 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 583 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
Newport's moderate wildfire rating (30th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 73.2% of Newport outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,027 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Newport. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Newport, see the exposure-zones guide.