Camp Crook, SD
Camp Crook wildfire risk explained
Camp Crook's 104 buildings earn a 95th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Camp Crook's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 96th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Camp Crook's buildings (57.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Camp Crook compares
There's little gap between Camp Crook's 95th national percentile and its 98th percentile inside South Dakota, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Camp Crook ranks 1,588 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,871 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 10 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
Camp Crook's 95th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 57.7% of Camp Crook'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.
Where Camp Crook's figures come from
Camp Crook's 95th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Camp Crook's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.