Pillsbury, ND
Pillsbury, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pillsbury at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 40 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pillsbury at the 51st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pillsbury's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 95% of Pillsbury's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 38 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Pillsbury against the rest of the country
Pillsbury's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (57th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (52nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pillsbury ranks 15,200 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,178 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 172 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Pillsbury's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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
Pillsbury's 95% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pillsbury's 15,200-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pillsbury, see the exposure-zones guide.