Randolph, MN
How exposed is Randolph to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Randolph at the 16th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 306 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Randolph at the 15th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Randolph's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 55.9% of Randolph's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 44.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Randolph against the rest of the country
Randolph scores 16th nationally and 20th 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, Randolph ranks 26,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,474 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 732 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Randolph
At the 16th national percentile, Randolph rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 55.9% of Randolph 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Randolph's 26,344-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Randolph, see the exposure-zones guide.