Colman, SD
Colman, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Colman at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 410 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Colman at the 24th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Colman rates 65.6% Minimal exposure against just 34.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 410 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Colman ranks
Inside South Dakota, Colman sits at just the 3rd percentile even though it scores 27th 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, Colman ranks 22,959 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,037 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 428 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Colman
At the 27th national percentile, Colman rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 65.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Colman gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Colman's 22,959-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Colman, see the exposure-zones guide.