Argusville, ND
Argusville, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Argusville at the 43rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 235 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Argusville at the 42nd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Argusville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 70.6% of Argusville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Argusville compares
There's little gap between Argusville's 43rd national percentile and its 32nd 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, Argusville ranks 18,033 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,641 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 271 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Argusville's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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
Even with 70.6% of Argusville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Argusville's 18,033-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Argusville, see the exposure-zones guide.