Athol, KS
Athol, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Athol at the 36th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 69 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Athol at the 32nd percentile, close to its 36th-percentile risk score.
Athol's building exposure, zone by zone
59.4% of Athol's 69 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 40.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Athol ranks
Athol's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Athol ranks 20,228 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,305 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 631 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Athol and the insurance market
Athol's moderate rating (36th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Athol
Athol's 59.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Athol's 20,228-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Athol, see the exposure-zones guide.