Long Hollow, SD
Long Hollow, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Long Hollow sits at the 77th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 131 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 Long Hollow at the 73rd percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
Where Long Hollow's buildings actually sit
99.2% of Long Hollow's 131 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 130 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.8% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Long Hollow ranks
There's little gap between Long Hollow's 77th national percentile and its 75th 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, Long Hollow ranks 7,353 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,689 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 110 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Long Hollow
Long Hollow's 77th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99.2% of Long Hollow in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Long Hollow's 7,353-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Long Hollow, see the exposure-zones guide.