Dwight, ND
How exposed is Dwight to wildfire?
Dwight's 71 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Dwight's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 13th percentile nationally.
Where Dwight's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 67.6% of Dwight's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Dwight compares
Dwight's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (4th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dwight ranks 26,580 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 387 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
At the 16th national percentile, Dwight rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Dwight's 67.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Dwight's 16th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dwight, see the exposure-zones guide.