Woodbury, MN
Woodbury wildfire risk explained
Woodbury sits at the 30th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 21,620 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodbury at the 31st percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
Where Woodbury's buildings actually sit
84% of Woodbury's 21,620 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 21,620 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Woodbury ranks
There's little gap between Woodbury's 30th national percentile and its 36th percentile inside Minnesota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodbury ranks 22,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 639 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 586 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Woodbury and the insurance market
At the 30th national percentile, Woodbury 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
Woodbury's 84% 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 Woodbury's figures come from
Woodbury's 30th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Woodbury's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.