Wales, ND
Wales, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wales's 79 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wales at the 52nd national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Wales's building exposure, zone by zone
69.6% of Wales's 79 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 30.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Wales against the rest of the country
Wales scores 60th nationally and 73rd 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, Wales ranks 12,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,939 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 109 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wales
Wales's elevated rating (60th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 69.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Wales gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wales's 12,706-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wales, see the exposure-zones guide.