Long Creek, ND
Long Creek, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Long Creek at the 81st national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 121 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 Long Creek at the 81st percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
Where Long Creek's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Long Creek: 82.6% of its 121 buildings, versus 17.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Long Creek ranks
Long Creek's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (95th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (81st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Creek ranks 5,932 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,120 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 20 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Long Creek
Long Creek's very high rating (81st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.6% of Long Creek in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 121 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Long Creek. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Long Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.