Springfield, SD
Springfield, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Springfield at the 80th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 581 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Springfield at the 71st national percentile — 9 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Springfield's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 46.6% of Springfield's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.1% Direct and 24.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Springfield ranks
Springfield scores 80th nationally and 79th 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, Springfield ranks 6,313 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,101 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 93 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Springfield
Springfield's 80th-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
Even with 46.6% of Springfield outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 581 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Springfield. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Springfield, see the exposure-zones guide.