Assaria, KS
Assaria, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Assaria lands at the 13th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 263 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Assaria at the 10th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
Assaria's building exposure, zone by zone
Assaria rates 93.9% Minimal exposure against just 6.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 263 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Assaria ranks
Assaria scores 13th nationally and 1st within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Assaria ranks 27,478 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,726 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 716 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Assaria
Assaria's low wildfire rating (13th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Assaria's 93.9% 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.
Where Assaria's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 263 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Assaria. The exposure-zones guide covers what Assaria's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.