Shakopee, MN
How exposed is Shakopee to wildfire?
Shakopee sits at the 42nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 12,601 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Shakopee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 39th percentile nationally.
Where Shakopee's buildings actually sit
Only 15.6% of Shakopee's 12,601 buildings carry Direct exposure and 29% carry Indirect; the remaining 55.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 12,601 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Shakopee compares
Within Minnesota, Shakopee ranks higher (58th percentile) than it does nationally (42nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shakopee ranks 18,406 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,219 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 388 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shakopee and the insurance market
Shakopee's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
Hardening a home in Shakopee
Shakopee's 55.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Shakopee's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,601 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shakopee. The exposure-zones guide covers what Shakopee's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.