Orland Colony, SD
Orland Colony wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Orland Colony lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 43 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Orland Colony at the 50th national percentile — 2 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
Only 39.5% of Orland Colony's 43 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 60.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Orland Colony compares
Orland Colony's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 32nd ranking inside South Dakota does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Orland Colony ranks 15,269 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,105 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 297 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Orland Colony and the insurance market
At the 52nd national percentile, Orland Colony rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 60.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Orland Colony 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 43 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Orland Colony. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Orland Colony, see the exposure-zones guide.