Kranzburg, SD
How exposed is Kranzburg to wildfire?
Kranzburg sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 157 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kranzburg at the 34th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Kranzburg's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 60.5% of Kranzburg's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 39.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Kranzburg ranks
Inside South Dakota, Kranzburg sits at just the 12th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Kranzburg ranks 19,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,587 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 386 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kranzburg
Kranzburg's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Kranzburg's 60.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kranzburg's 19,365-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kranzburg, see the exposure-zones guide.