Adams, ND
How exposed is Adams to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Adams at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 208 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Adams's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
Adams's building exposure, zone by zone
Adams rates 83.7% Minimal exposure against just 16.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 208 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Adams ranks
Adams scores 54th nationally and 61st within North Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Adams ranks 14,382 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,566 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 157 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Adams
At the 54th national percentile, Adams rates elevated 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 Adams
Adams's 83.7% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Adams's 14,382-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Adams, see the exposure-zones guide.