Admire, KS
How exposed is Admire to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Admire at the 96th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 126 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Admire's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 93rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Admire's buildings (50.8%) 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.
How Admire compares
Admire's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (97th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (96th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Admire ranks 1,320 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,891 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 21 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Admire and the insurance market
Admire's 96th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Admire
Because 50.8% of Admire'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 126 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Admire. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Admire, see the exposure-zones guide.