Minot AFB, ND
Minot AFB wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Minot AFB at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,402 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Minot AFB's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Where Minot AFB's buildings actually sit
Minot AFB rates 93.1% Minimal exposure against just 6.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,402 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Minot AFB against the rest of the country
Inside North Dakota, Minot AFB sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 39th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Minot AFB ranks 19,293 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,623 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 309 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Minot AFB
Minot AFB's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Minot AFB's 93.1% 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.
Where Minot AFB's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,402 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Minot AFB. The exposure-zones guide covers what Minot AFB's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.