Enemy Swim, SD
How exposed is Enemy Swim to wildfire?
USFS scores Enemy Swim at the 71st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 251 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Enemy Swim at the 68th national percentile — 3 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
Direct exposure dominates in Enemy Swim: 64.9% of its 251 buildings, versus 8.4% Indirect and 26.7% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Enemy Swim against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Enemy Swim's 71st national percentile and its 67th 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, Enemy Swim ranks 9,213 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,118 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 145 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Enemy Swim
Enemy Swim's high rating (71st 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 Enemy Swim
Because Direct exposure dominates in Enemy Swim (64.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 251 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Enemy Swim. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Enemy Swim, see the exposure-zones guide.