Brinsmade, ND
How exposed is Brinsmade to wildfire?
Brinsmade's 39 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brinsmade at the 43rd national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Brinsmade's buildings actually sit
Of Brinsmade's 39 counted buildings, 84.6% carry Direct exposure and only 15.4% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Brinsmade ranks
Brinsmade's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (34th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (44th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brinsmade ranks 17,719 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,193 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 264 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Brinsmade
At the 44th national percentile, Brinsmade rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 84.6% of Brinsmade in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Brinsmade's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brinsmade, see the exposure-zones guide.