Bath, SD
Bath, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bath at the 54th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 134 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 Bath at the 52nd percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bath rates 73.1% Minimal exposure against just 26.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 134 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Bath compares
Bath ranks lower within South Dakota (35th percentile statewide) than its 54th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bath ranks 14,606 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 284 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Bath and the insurance market
Bath's elevated rating (54th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Bath
Even with 73.1% of Bath 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 134 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bath. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bath, see the exposure-zones guide.