Dupree, SD
Dupree, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Dupree at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 323 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 Dupree at the 62nd percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Dupree's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Dupree (89.5% of 323 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 10.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Dupree against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Dupree's 65th national percentile and its 56th 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, Dupree ranks 11,170 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,023 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 193 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Dupree
Dupree's 65th-percentile, 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
Dupree's 89.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 323 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dupree. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Dupree, see the exposure-zones guide.