Braddock, ND
Braddock, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Braddock's 57 buildings earn a 62nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Braddock at the 53rd national percentile — 9 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Braddock (56.1% of 57 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 43.9% sit in the Direct zone.
Braddock against the rest of the country
Compare Braddock's two percentiles: 78th within North Dakota, only 62nd nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Braddock ranks 12,107 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,749 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 90 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Braddock
Braddock's 62nd-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.
Hardening a home in Braddock
Braddock's 56.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Braddock's 12,107-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Braddock, see the exposure-zones guide.