Voltaire, ND
Voltaire, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Voltaire at the 49th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 69 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Voltaire at the 47th percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Voltaire's 69 counted buildings, 62.3% carry Direct exposure and only 37.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Voltaire ranks
Voltaire scores 49th nationally and 50th within North Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Voltaire ranks 15,948 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,321 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 201 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Voltaire
Voltaire's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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 Voltaire
With 62.3% of Voltaire in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Voltaire's 15,948-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Voltaire, see the exposure-zones guide.