Arcadia, KS
Arcadia wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Arcadia at the 68th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 225 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arcadia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Arcadia's building exposure, zone by zone
68% of Arcadia's 225 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 32% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Arcadia ranks
Arcadia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (64th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (68th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arcadia ranks 10,174 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,942 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 260 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arcadia
Arcadia's 68th-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.
Hardening a home in Arcadia
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Arcadia (68% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Arcadia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arcadia's 10,174-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Arcadia's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.