Pekin, ND
Pekin wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pekin at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 99 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pekin at the 65th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Pekin's building exposure, zone by zone
58.6% of Pekin's 99 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 41.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Pekin ranks
Compare Pekin's two percentiles: 87th within North Dakota, only 69th nationally — a gap of 18 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pekin ranks 9,780 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,095 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 54 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Pekin and the insurance market
At the 69th percentile nationally, Pekin carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Pekin
Pekin's 58.6% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 99 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pekin. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pekin, see the exposure-zones guide.