Ravinia, SD
Ravinia wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ravinia at the 64th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 54 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 Ravinia at the 62nd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Ravinia's 54 counted buildings, 70.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Ravinia ranks
Ravinia's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Dakota (54th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (64th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ravinia ranks 11,483 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,836 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 202 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ravinia
Ravinia'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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 70.4% of Ravinia in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 54 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Ravinia. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ravinia, see the exposure-zones guide.