West St. Paul, MN
How exposed is West St. Paul to wildfire?
West St. Paul's 7,432 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks West St. Paul at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
West St. Paul rates 95.4% Minimal exposure against just 4.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 7,432 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 7,432 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How West St. Paul compares
There's little gap between West St. Paul's 33rd national percentile and its 41st percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, West St. Paul ranks 21,113 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,297 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 545 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in West St. Paul
West St. Paul's moderate rating (33rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 95.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, West St. Paul gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where West St. Paul's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind West St. Paul's 21,113-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what West St. Paul's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.