Hamilton, ND
Hamilton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Hamilton at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 93 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Hamilton at the 7th 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
Most of Hamilton's buildings (60.2% of 93) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Hamilton compares
There's little gap between Hamilton's 6th national percentile and its 1st 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, Hamilton ranks 29,574 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 400 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Hamilton and the insurance market
At the 6th national percentile, Hamilton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Hamilton
Hamilton's 60.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 93 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hamilton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hamilton, see the exposure-zones guide.