Redfield, SD
How exposed is Redfield to wildfire?
Redfield sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,555 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Redfield at the 63rd percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Redfield (54.3% of 1,555 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 12.4% sit in the Direct zone.
Redfield against the rest of the country
Redfield's risk sits at a similar level relative to South Dakota (55th 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, Redfield ranks 11,418 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,938 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 200 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Redfield'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 Redfield
Redfield's 54.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Redfield's 11,418-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Redfield, see the exposure-zones guide.