Ambrose, ND
Ambrose wildfire risk explained
Ambrose sits at the 5th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 87 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ambrose's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 5th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 32.2% of Ambrose's 87 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 67.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Ambrose ranks
There's little gap between Ambrose's 5th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside North Dakota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ambrose ranks 29,858 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,626 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 401 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ambrose
Ambrose's low wildfire rating (5th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Ambrose's 67.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 87 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ambrose. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ambrose, see the exposure-zones guide.