Walcott, ND
How exposed is Walcott to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Walcott lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 219 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Walcott at the 71st percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Walcott's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 60.3% of Walcott's 219 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Walcott compares
Compare Walcott's two percentiles: 94th within North Dakota, only 78th nationally — a gap of 16 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walcott ranks 6,940 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,166 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 27 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
Walcott's high rating (78th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Walcott
Because 60.3% of Walcott's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 219 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Walcott. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Walcott, see the exposure-zones guide.