Dickinson, ND
How exposed is Dickinson to wildfire?
Dickinson's 9,460 buildings earn a 41st-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dickinson at the 39th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Where Dickinson's buildings actually sit
Dickinson rates 83.1% Minimal exposure against just 6% Direct and 10.9% Indirect — of 9,460 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,460 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Dickinson against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dickinson's 41st national percentile and its 26th percentile inside North Dakota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dickinson ranks 18,694 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,725 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 297 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Dickinson's elevated rating (41st 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 Dickinson
With 83.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Dickinson gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Dickinson's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dickinson's 18,694-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dickinson's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.