Solen, ND
Solen wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Solen at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 98 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Solen at the 75th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Solen's buildings actually sit
Of Solen's 98 counted buildings, 75.5% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Solen compares
Solen's 93rd-percentile standing inside North Dakota outpaces its 77th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Solen ranks 7,412 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,145 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 31 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
Solen's 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Solen's 75.5% 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.
Where Solen's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Solen's 7,412-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Solen's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.