Wood Lake, MN
Wood Lake, MN's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wood Lake at the 4th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 293 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wood Lake at the 3rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wood Lake's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 89.4% of Wood Lake's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Wood Lake compares
There's little gap between Wood Lake's 4th national percentile and its 7th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wood Lake ranks 30,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 855 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wood Lake
At the 4th national percentile, Wood Lake rates low 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 Wood Lake
Wood Lake's 89.4% 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 Wood Lake's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wood Lake's 30,167-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wood Lake's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.