Four Bears Village, ND
Four Bears Village wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Four Bears Village at the 86th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 191 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Four Bears Village at the 86th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Four Bears Village (50.3% of 191 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 49.7% sit in the Direct zone.
How Four Bears Village compares
There's little gap between Four Bears Village's 86th national percentile and its 98th 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, Four Bears Village ranks 4,452 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,216 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 10 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Four Bears Village
At the 86th percentile nationally, Four Bears Village carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Four Bears Village
Because 50.3% of Four Bears Village's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Four Bears Village's 86th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Four Bears Village, see the exposure-zones guide.