Frontier, ND
How exposed is Frontier to wildfire?
Frontier sits at the 37th 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 122 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Frontier at the 40th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Frontier's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 35.3% of Frontier's 122 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 64.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Frontier compares
Inside North Dakota, Frontier sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 37th 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, Frontier ranks 19,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,077 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 324 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Frontier
At the 37th national percentile, Frontier rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Frontier's 64.8% 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
Frontier's 37th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Frontier, see the exposure-zones guide.