Selz, ND
Selz wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Selz lands at the 35th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 54 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Selz at the 32nd national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Selz's building exposure, zone by zone
68.5% of Selz's 54 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 37 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 31.5% are Minimal.
How Selz compares
Inside North Dakota, Selz sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 35th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Selz ranks 20,428 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,828 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 334 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Selz
Selz's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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 Selz
Selz's 68.5% 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
Selz's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Selz, see the exposure-zones guide.