Red Wing, MN
Red Wing wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Red Wing at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 7,679 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Red Wing at the 29th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Red Wing's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 67.3% of Red Wing's 7,679 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32.5% Direct and 0.2% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to. At 7,679 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Red Wing against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Red Wing's 29th national percentile and its 35th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Red Wing ranks 22,469 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,222 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 596 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 29th national percentile, Red Wing 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
Because 67.3% of Red Wing'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.
Where Red Wing's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,679 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Red Wing. The exposure-zones guide covers what Red Wing's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.