Glenburn, ND
Glenburn wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Glenburn at the 46th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 294 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 Glenburn at the 45th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 12.6% of Glenburn's 294 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Glenburn compares
Glenburn's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (40th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (46th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glenburn ranks 17,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,799 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 242 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Glenburn and the insurance market
Glenburn's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Glenburn's 87.4% 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.
Where Glenburn's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 294 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glenburn. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glenburn's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.