Peever Flats, SD
Peever Flats, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Peever Flats at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 30 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Peever Flats's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Where Peever Flats's buildings actually sit
56.7% of Peever Flats's 30 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 17 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 43.3% are Minimal.
How Peever Flats compares
Peever Flats scores 64th nationally and 55th within South Dakota — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peever Flats ranks 11,326 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,365 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 199 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peever Flats
Peever Flats's 64th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Peever Flats
Peever Flats's 56.7% 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.
Where Peever Flats's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Peever Flats's 11,326-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Peever Flats's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.