Winona, MN
Winona wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Winona at the 30th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 11,079 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winona at the 30th percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
11,079 buildings are counted in Winona, and 61.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 11.3% in Direct exposure or the 27.1% rated Minimal. At 11,079 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Winona ranks
Winona's risk sits at a similar level relative to Minnesota (36th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (30th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winona ranks 22,222 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,435 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 588 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winona
At the 30th national percentile, Winona rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 61.6% of Winona'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winona's 22,222-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winona, see the exposure-zones guide.