Basehor, KS
How exposed is Basehor to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Basehor lands at the 54th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,699 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Basehor at the 55th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Basehor's 2,699 counted buildings, 53% carry Direct exposure and only 38.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Basehor against the rest of the country
Basehor scores 54th nationally and 40th 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, Basehor ranks 14,490 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,933 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 430 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Basehor
At the 54th national percentile, Basehor rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Basehor (53%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Basehor's 54th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Basehor, see the exposure-zones guide.