Eagle Butte, SD
Eagle Butte, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Eagle Butte at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 535 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eagle Butte's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
Eagle Butte's building exposure, zone by zone
535 buildings are counted in Eagle Butte, and 82.2% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 17.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Eagle Butte ranks
There's little gap between Eagle Butte's 69th national percentile and its 64th 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, Eagle Butte ranks 9,714 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,805 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 159 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Eagle Butte and the insurance market
Eagle Butte's high rating (69th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Eagle Butte
Because 82.2% of Eagle Butte'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eagle Butte's 9,714-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Eagle Butte, see the exposure-zones guide.