Antelope, SD
Antelope, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Antelope's 256 buildings earn a 89th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Antelope at the 87th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Antelope's buildings actually sit
256 buildings are counted in Antelope, and 66.8% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.2% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Antelope ranks
Antelope scores 89th nationally and 91st 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, Antelope ranks 3,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 37 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Antelope
Antelope's very high rating (89th 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 Antelope
Because 66.8% of Antelope'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Antelope's 3,415-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Antelope, see the exposure-zones guide.