Counties with the Most Wildfires in South Dakota
The top 25 of 66 South Dakota counties on GIS Map, ranked by the number of wildfires reported to a federal, state or local agency between 1992 and 2024.
| # | County | Recorded wildfires |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pennington County | 1,369 |
| 2 | Custer County | 862 |
| 3 | Oglala Lakota County | 765 |
| 4 | Lawrence County | 584 |
| 5 | Fall River County | 567 |
| 6 | Todd County | 534 |
| 7 | Meade County | 401 |
| 8 | Lincoln County | 327 |
| 9 | Lyman County | 303 |
| 10 | Buffalo County | 300 |
| 11 | Charles Mix County | 297 |
| 12 | Dewey County | 264 |
| 13 | Brown County | 260 |
| 14 | Minnehaha County | 260 |
| 15 | Perkins County | 253 |
| 16 | Ziebach County | 241 |
| 17 | Corson County | 231 |
| 18 | Union County | 186 |
| 19 | Harding County | 172 |
| 20 | Turner County | 161 |
| 21 | Yankton County | 154 |
| 22 | Jackson County | 149 |
| 23 | Bon Homme County | 143 |
| 24 | Mellette County | 139 |
| 25 | Stanley County | 137 |
Source: USFS Fire Program Analysis Fire Occurrence Database (1992-2024). All counties with data are ranked. Estimates carry margins of error.
Citing this page: GIS Map, “Counties with the Most Wildfires in South Dakota”, https://gismap.land/rankings/south-dakota/most-wildfires-counties. Figures from USFS Fire Program Analysis Fire Occurrence Database (1992-2024).
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