Drake, ND
Drake, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Drake sits at the 37th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 366 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Drake at the 35th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Where Drake's buildings actually sit
Most of Drake's buildings (77.6%) 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.
Drake against the rest of the country
Inside North Dakota, Drake sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 37th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Drake ranks 19,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,945 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 329 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Drake and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Drake rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Drake (77.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Drake's 19,985-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Drake, see the exposure-zones guide.