Flaxton, ND
Flaxton, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Flaxton at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 103 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Flaxton at the 34th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Flaxton's buildings actually sit
Flaxton rates 86.4% Minimal exposure against just 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 103 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Flaxton compares
Inside North Dakota, Flaxton sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Flaxton ranks 19,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,915 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 307 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
Flaxton's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Flaxton
With 86.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Flaxton gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 103 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Flaxton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Flaxton, see the exposure-zones guide.