Nash, ND
Nash wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nash lands at the 15th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 41 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nash at the 15th percentile, close to its 15th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 85.4% of Nash's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 14.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Nash against the rest of the country
Nash scores 15th nationally and 3rd 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, Nash ranks 26,921 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,148 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 389 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Nash and the insurance market
Nash's low rating (15th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 85.4% of Nash outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 41 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nash. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Nash, see the exposure-zones guide.