Pick City, ND
How exposed is Pick City to wildfire?
Pick City's 256 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pick City at the 75th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pick City's buildings actually sit
256 buildings are counted in Pick City, and 74.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 25.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Pick City against the rest of the country
Compare Pick City's two percentiles: 93rd within North Dakota, only 77th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pick City ranks 7,318 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,950 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 30 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pick City
At the 77th percentile nationally, Pick City 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 74.6% of Pick City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Pick City's figures come from
Pick City's 77th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pick City's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.