Calvin, ND
Calvin wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Calvin at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 65 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Calvin at the 46th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 69.2% of Calvin's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Calvin compares
Calvin scores 46th nationally and 41st within North Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Calvin ranks 16,996 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 236 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Calvin
Calvin's elevated rating (46th 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 Calvin
With 69.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Calvin gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Calvin's 16,996-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Calvin, see the exposure-zones guide.