Fort Ransom, ND
Fort Ransom, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fort Ransom lands at the 71st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 124 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Fort Ransom at the 67th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Fort Ransom's building exposure, zone by zone
81.5% of Fort Ransom's 124 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 101 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 18.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Fort Ransom ranks
Fort Ransom's 88th-percentile standing inside North Dakota outpaces its 71st national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Ransom ranks 9,021 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,998 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 49 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Fort Ransom and the insurance market
Fort Ransom's 71st-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Fort Ransom
With 81.5% of Fort Ransom in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Fort Ransom's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fort Ransom's 9,021-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fort Ransom's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.