Scranton, ND
How exposed is Scranton to wildfire?
USFS scores Scranton at the 42nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 268 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 Scranton at the 39th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Where Scranton's buildings actually sit
Most of Scranton's buildings (50% of 268) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Scranton ranks
There's little gap between Scranton's 42nd national percentile and its 28th 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, Scranton ranks 18,443 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,577 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 289 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Scranton
Scranton'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 50% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Scranton 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
Scranton'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 Scranton, see the exposure-zones guide.