Bathgate, ND
Bathgate, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Bathgate sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 76 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bathgate at the 24th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bathgate's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 54% of Bathgate's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 46.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Bathgate compares
Inside North Dakota, Bathgate sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 24th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bathgate ranks 23,868 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,057 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 369 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
Bathgate's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Hardening a home in Bathgate
Bathgate's 54% 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 Bathgate's 23,868-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bathgate, see the exposure-zones guide.