Sedan, MN
How exposed is Sedan to wildfire?
Sedan sits at the 61st 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 62 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sedan's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 58th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
59.7% of Sedan's 62 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 40.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Sedan compares
Compare Sedan's two percentiles: 87th within Minnesota, only 61st nationally — a gap of 26 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sedan ranks 12,194 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,578 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 122 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Sedan
Sedan's 61st-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Sedan (59.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Sedan's 61st-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 Sedan, see the exposure-zones guide.