Edgeley, ND
How exposed is Edgeley to wildfire?
USFS scores Edgeley at the 47th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 565 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Edgeley at the 47th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 78.9% of Edgeley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Edgeley compares
There's little gap between Edgeley's 47th national percentile and its 45th percentile inside North Dakota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgeley ranks 16,618 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,331 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 222 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Edgeley
Edgeley's elevated rating (47th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Edgeley
Edgeley's 78.9% 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
Edgeley's 47th-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 Edgeley, see the exposure-zones guide.