Surrey, ND
Surrey wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Surrey at the 20th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 645 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 Surrey at the 19th percentile, close to its 20th-percentile risk score.
Where Surrey's buildings actually sit
Only 11.6% of Surrey's 645 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 88.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Surrey compares
Surrey's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (20th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Surrey ranks 25,253 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,266 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 379 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Surrey and the insurance market
At the 20th national percentile, Surrey rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Surrey
Surrey's 88.4% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Surrey's 25,253-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Surrey, see the exposure-zones guide.