Loomis, SD
How exposed is Loomis to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Loomis at the 61st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 40 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Loomis at the 59th percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Loomis's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Loomis's 40 counted buildings, 95% carry Direct exposure and only 5% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Loomis ranks
Loomis scores 61st nationally and 50th within South Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Loomis ranks 12,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,184 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 220 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Loomis
Loomis's high rating (61st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 95% of Loomis 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 Loomis's 12,274-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Loomis, see the exposure-zones guide.