Max, ND
Max wildfire risk explained
Max's 311 buildings earn a 21st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Max's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 18th percentile nationally.
Max's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 21.9% of Max's 311 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 78.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Max compares
Max scores 21st nationally and 7th within North Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Max ranks 24,837 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,350 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 375 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Max
Max's moderate rating (21st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Max
With 78.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Max gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Max's 24,837-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Max, see the exposure-zones guide.