Hansboro, ND
How exposed is Hansboro to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hansboro at the 73rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 36 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hansboro's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Hansboro: 75% of its 36 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 25% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Hansboro compares
Compare Hansboro's two percentiles: 90th within North Dakota, only 73rd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hansboro ranks 8,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 42 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hansboro
Hansboro's 73rd-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Hansboro's 75% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hansboro's 8,481-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Hansboro, see the exposure-zones guide.