Wing, ND
Wing wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wing at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 153 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 Wing at the 59th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Where Wing's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 57.5% of Wing's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 42.5% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 88 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Wing ranks
Compare Wing's two percentiles: 80th within North Dakota, only 63rd nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wing ranks 11,799 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 83 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Wing and the insurance market
Wing's 63rd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With 57.5% of Wing 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
Wing's 63rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wing, see the exposure-zones guide.