Prairie Rose, ND
Prairie Rose, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Prairie Rose at the 42nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 26 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Prairie Rose at the 48th national percentile — 6 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Prairie Rose rates 80.8% Minimal exposure against just 19.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 26 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Prairie Rose compares
There's little gap between Prairie Rose's 42nd national percentile and its 29th percentile inside North Dakota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prairie Rose ranks 18,279 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,405 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 284 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
Prairie Rose's elevated wildfire rating (42nd 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.
Hardening a home in Prairie Rose
Prairie Rose's 80.8% 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
Prairie Rose's 42nd-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 Prairie Rose, see the exposure-zones guide.