Beattie, KS
How exposed is Beattie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Beattie at the 77th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 217 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 Beattie at the 71st percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Indirect exposure is dominant in Beattie (95.4% of 217 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 4.6% sit in the Direct zone.
How Beattie compares
Beattie scores 77th nationally and 75th 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, Beattie ranks 7,116 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,233 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 181 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Beattie and the insurance market
Beattie's high rating (77th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 95.4% of Beattie's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Beattie's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 217 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Beattie. The exposure-zones guide covers what Beattie's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.