Green Acres, ND
How exposed is Green Acres to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Green Acres lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 172 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Green Acres's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Green Acres's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Green Acres's 172 counted buildings, 94.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Green Acres ranks
Green Acres's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green Acres ranks 4,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,953 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 11 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Green Acres and the insurance market
Green Acres's 86th-percentile, very 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 Green Acres
Because Direct exposure dominates in Green Acres (94.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Green Acres'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 direct exposure implies beyond Green Acres, see the exposure-zones guide.