Garrison, ND
How exposed is Garrison to wildfire?
Garrison's 1,116 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Garrison at the 41st percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Garrison's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Garrison (80% of 1,116 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 13% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Garrison ranks
There's little gap between Garrison's 44th national percentile and its 34th 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, Garrison ranks 17,785 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,176 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 267 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Garrison
Garrison's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Garrison's 80% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Garrison's 17,785-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Garrison, see the exposure-zones guide.