New Witten, SD
How exposed is New Witten to wildfire?
New Witten's 118 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Witten at the 59th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Where New Witten's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 66.1% of New Witten's 118 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 33.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How New Witten compares
There's little gap between New Witten's 66th national percentile and its 59th 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, New Witten ranks 10,662 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 179 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Witten
New Witten's high rating (66th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 66.1% of New Witten's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 118 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for New Witten. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond New Witten, see the exposure-zones guide.