Fessenden, ND
Fessenden, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fessenden sits at the 31st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 494 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Fessenden at the 28th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Fessenden's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Fessenden's buildings (90.3% of 494) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Fessenden against the rest of the country
Inside North Dakota, Fessenden sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 31st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fessenden ranks 21,815 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,462 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 350 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fessenden
Fessenden's moderate rating (31st 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 Fessenden
Fessenden's 90.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fessenden's 21,815-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fessenden, see the exposure-zones guide.