Northville, SD
Northville, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Northville's 125 buildings earn a 65th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Northville at the 60th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 69.6% of Northville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 30.4% Minimal share — a profile where 87 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Northville compares
There's little gap between Northville's 65th national percentile and its 58th 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, Northville ranks 10,918 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,960 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 186 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Northville
Northville's high rating (65th 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
Northville's 69.6% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Northville's 10,918-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Northville, see the exposure-zones guide.