Tabor, SD
Tabor wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Tabor at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 331 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 Tabor at the 43rd percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
Where Tabor's buildings actually sit
Only 28.1% of Tabor's 331 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Tabor compares
Inside South Dakota, Tabor sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 44th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tabor ranks 17,756 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,805 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 355 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tabor
At the 44th national percentile, Tabor rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Tabor's 71.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tabor's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Tabor, see the exposure-zones guide.