Beach, ND
Beach wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beach at the 23rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 951 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beach at the 21st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Beach's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Beach's buildings (82.8% of 951) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Beach compares
Beach ranks lower within North Dakota (8th percentile statewide) than its 23rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beach ranks 24,244 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,302 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 371 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Beach
Beach's moderate rating (23rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Beach
Beach's 82.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Beach's 24,244-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Beach, see the exposure-zones guide.