Mooreton, ND
Mooreton, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mooreton lands at the 8th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 157 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mooreton at the 7th national percentile — 1 points below 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 Mooreton's buildings (82.8% of 157) 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 Mooreton compares
Mooreton scores 8th nationally and 1st 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, Mooreton ranks 28,882 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,578 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 397 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mooreton
At the 8th national percentile, Mooreton 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 Mooreton
Mooreton's 82.8% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mooreton's 28,882-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mooreton, see the exposure-zones guide.