Mayfield Colony, SD
Mayfield Colony, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mayfield Colony at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 35 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mayfield Colony at the 29th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mayfield Colony's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 74.3% of Mayfield Colony's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 25.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Mayfield Colony compares
Inside South Dakota, Mayfield Colony sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 35th 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, Mayfield Colony ranks 20,627 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,284 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 405 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mayfield Colony
Mayfield Colony's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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
Mayfield Colony's 74.3% 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 Mayfield Colony's 20,627-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mayfield Colony, see the exposure-zones guide.