Powers Lake, ND
How exposed is Powers Lake to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Powers Lake at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 353 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Powers Lake at the 49th national percentile — 6 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
Powers Lake rates 84.4% Minimal exposure against just 15% Direct and 0.6% Indirect — of 353 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Powers Lake compares
Powers Lake scores 56th nationally and 64th 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, Powers Lake ranks 14,036 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,245 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 147 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
At the 56th national percentile, Powers Lake rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 84.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Powers Lake gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Powers Lake's 56th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Powers Lake, see the exposure-zones guide.