Westport, SD
Westport, SD's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Westport at the 42nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 107 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Westport at the 41st national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Westport's building exposure, zone by zone
57% of Westport's 107 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 43% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Westport compares
Inside South Dakota, Westport sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 42nd 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, Westport ranks 18,358 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,752 by building count (1 is largest). Within South Dakota alone, it ranks 368 of 439 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for South Dakota on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westport
Westport's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 57% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Westport gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Westport's 18,358-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westport, see the exposure-zones guide.