Zeeland, ND
Zeeland, ND's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Zeeland at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 216 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Zeeland at the 39th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Zeeland's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 31.5% of Zeeland's 216 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Zeeland ranks
Zeeland's risk sits at a similar level relative to North Dakota (35th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (44th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Zeeland ranks 17,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,281 by building count (1 is largest). Within North Dakota alone, it ranks 263 of 402 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for North Dakota on its state page.
Zeeland and the insurance market
At the 44th national percentile, Zeeland rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Zeeland's 68.5% 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 Zeeland's 17,693-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Zeeland, see the exposure-zones guide.