Dunseith, ND
Dunseith, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dunseith at the 89th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 382 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dunseith at the 89th percentile, close to its 89th-percentile risk score.
Dunseith's building exposure, zone by zone
81.7% of Dunseith's 382 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 18.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Dunseith ranks
Dunseith's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (99th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dunseith ranks 3,411 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,601 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 5 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Dunseith and the insurance market
Dunseith's 89th-percentile, very 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 Dunseith
Because 81.7% of Dunseith'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Dunseith's 3,411-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dunseith, see the exposure-zones guide.