Souris, ND
How exposed is Souris to wildfire?
USFS scores Souris at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 71 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Souris at the 56th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Souris's building exposure, zone by zone
77.5% of Souris's 71 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 22.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Souris compares
Within North Dakota, Souris ranks higher (78th percentile) than it does nationally (62nd) — one of the more fire-exposed places in a state that, overall, scores lower than that. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Souris ranks 12,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,256 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 89 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Souris
Souris's 62nd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 77.5% of Souris outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Souris's 12,007-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Souris, see the exposure-zones guide.