Milbank, SD
Milbank wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Milbank at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,142 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 Milbank at the 28th percentile, close to its 33rd-percentile risk score.
Milbank's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 89.9% of Milbank's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Milbank against the rest of the country
Inside South Dakota, Milbank sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 33rd 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, Milbank ranks 21,254 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,089 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 415 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Milbank
At the 33rd national percentile, Milbank rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Milbank
With 89.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Milbank 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,142 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milbank. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Milbank, see the exposure-zones guide.