Bantry, ND
Bantry wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bantry at the 76th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 35 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bantry's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 72nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 97.1% of Bantry's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 2.9% Minimal share — a profile where 34 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Bantry ranks
Bantry's 92nd-percentile standing inside North Dakota outpaces its 76th 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, Bantry ranks 7,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,278 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 33 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Bantry and the insurance market
Bantry's 76th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Bantry (97.1%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bantry's 7,666-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bantry, see the exposure-zones guide.