Aurora, KS
How exposed is Aurora to wildfire?
Aurora's 81 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Aurora at the 55th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Aurora's building exposure, zone by zone
84% of Aurora's 81 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 16.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Aurora against the rest of the country
Aurora's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (53rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (60th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Aurora ranks 12,601 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,841 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 341 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Aurora's elevated rating (60th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 84% of Aurora outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Aurora's 60th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Aurora, see the exposure-zones guide.