Stanley, ND
Stanley wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Stanley at the 45th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,495 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stanley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 43rd percentile nationally.
Stanley's building exposure, zone by zone
Stanley rates 74.3% Minimal exposure against just 11.7% Direct and 14.1% Indirect — of 1,495 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Stanley compares
There's little gap between Stanley's 45th national percentile and its 38th 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, Stanley ranks 17,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,193 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 248 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Stanley
Stanley's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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 Stanley
Even with 74.3% of Stanley 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
Stanley's 45th-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 Stanley, see the exposure-zones guide.