Albee, SD
Albee, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Albee at the 12th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 19 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Albee's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
Albee's building exposure, zone by zone
19 buildings are counted in Albee, and 89.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 10.5% rated Minimal. This is a small settlement by building count — 19 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Albee against the rest of the country
Albee scores 12th nationally and 0th within South 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, Albee ranks 27,840 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,467 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 438 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Albee and the insurance market
At the 12th national percentile, Albee rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Albee's 89.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Albee's 27,840-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. At 19 buildings, Albee is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.