Harrisburg, SD
Harrisburg, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Harrisburg's 2,068 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Harrisburg at the 35th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Harrisburg rates 85% Minimal exposure against just 15% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 2,068 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Harrisburg against the rest of the country
Inside South Dakota, Harrisburg sits at just the 7th percentile even though it scores 34th 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, Harrisburg ranks 20,718 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,291 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 407 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
Harrisburg's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Harrisburg
Harrisburg's 85% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Harrisburg's figures come from
Harrisburg's 34th-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 Harrisburg's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.