Bath Corner, SD
Bath Corner wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bath Corner at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 40 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bath Corner at the 49th percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Bath Corner's buildings (87.5% of 40) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Bath Corner against the rest of the country
Inside South Dakota, Bath Corner sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bath Corner ranks 15,455 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,182 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 300 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 51st national percentile, Bath Corner rates elevated 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
Even with 87.5% of Bath Corner outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Bath Corner's 15,455-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bath Corner, see the exposure-zones guide.