Cleveland, ND
Cleveland, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Cleveland's 164 buildings earn a 33rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Cleveland at the 30th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Cleveland's buildings (76.8%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Cleveland compares
Cleveland's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside North Dakota does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cleveland ranks 20,995 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 345 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cleveland
Cleveland's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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 Cleveland
Cleveland's 76.8% 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
Cleveland's 33rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cleveland, see the exposure-zones guide.