Lennox, SD
How exposed is Lennox to wildfire?
Lennox sits at the 41st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,185 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lennox's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 21% of Lennox's 1,185 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Lennox against the rest of the country
Lennox's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside South Dakota does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lennox ranks 18,673 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 377 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Lennox and the insurance market
Lennox's elevated rating (41st 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 Lennox
With 79% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lennox gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Lennox's 41st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lennox, see the exposure-zones guide.