Donnybrook, ND
How exposed is Donnybrook to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Donnybrook lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 109 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Donnybrook at the 61st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Donnybrook's buildings actually sit
58.7% of Donnybrook's 109 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 64 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 41.3% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Donnybrook compares
Within North Dakota, Donnybrook ranks higher (79th percentile) than it does nationally (62nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Donnybrook ranks 11,883 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,668 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 86 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Donnybrook and the insurance market
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Donnybrook carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Donnybrook
Donnybrook's 58.7% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Donnybrook's 11,883-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Donnybrook, see the exposure-zones guide.