Roslyn, SD
Roslyn wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Roslyn at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 162 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Roslyn at the 61st national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Roslyn's buildings actually sit
Most of Roslyn's buildings (74.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Roslyn against the rest of the country
Roslyn scores 63rd nationally and 53rd 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, Roslyn ranks 11,579 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 206 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Roslyn and the insurance market
Roslyn's high rating (63rd 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
Because 74.7% of Roslyn's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 162 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Roslyn. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Roslyn, see the exposure-zones guide.