Redwood Falls, MN
Redwood Falls wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Redwood Falls lands at the 43rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,786 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Redwood Falls at the 38th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Redwood Falls's building exposure, zone by zone
Redwood Falls rates 84.7% Minimal exposure against just 11.8% Direct and 3.5% Indirect — of 2,786 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Redwood Falls ranks
Compare Redwood Falls's two percentiles: 59th within Minnesota, only 43rd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Redwood Falls ranks 18,091 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 374 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Redwood Falls and the insurance market
At the 43rd national percentile, Redwood Falls rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Redwood Falls
Even with 84.7% of Redwood Falls 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 Redwood Falls's 18,091-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Redwood Falls, see the exposure-zones guide.