Drayton, ND
Drayton wildfire risk explained
Drayton sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 608 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Drayton at the 68th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Drayton's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 54.3% of Drayton's 608 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.9% Direct and 40.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Drayton compares
Compare Drayton's two percentiles: 85th within North Dakota, only 68th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Drayton ranks 10,092 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,718 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 59 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
Drayton's 68th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Drayton
Because 54.3% of Drayton's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Drayton's 68th-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 Drayton, see the exposure-zones guide.