Woodland, MN
Woodland wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Woodland at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 262 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodland at the 44th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Woodland's 262 counted buildings, 69.5% carry Direct exposure and only 30.5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Woodland against the rest of the country
Woodland's 69th-percentile standing inside Minnesota outpaces its 46th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodland ranks 16,893 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,772 by building count (1 is largest). Within Minnesota alone, it ranks 286 of 914 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Minnesota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodland
Woodland's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Woodland (69.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Woodland's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Woodland, see the exposure-zones guide.