Emerado, ND
Emerado, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Emerado's 355 buildings earn a 26th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Emerado at the 28th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Emerado's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.5% of Emerado's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Emerado ranks
Emerado's 26th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 10th ranking inside North Dakota does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Emerado ranks 23,239 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,192 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 364 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Emerado and the insurance market
Emerado's moderate rating (26th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Emerado's 86.5% 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.
Where Emerado's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 355 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Emerado. The exposure-zones guide covers what Emerado's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.