Belle Plaine, KS
Belle Plaine, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Belle Plaine at the 25th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 960 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Belle Plaine at the 21st national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Belle Plaine's buildings actually sit
Belle Plaine rates 93.2% Minimal exposure against just 6.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 960 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Belle Plaine against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Belle Plaine sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 25th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belle Plaine ranks 23,662 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,225 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 682 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
At the 25th national percentile, Belle Plaine rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Belle Plaine
Even with 93.2% of Belle Plaine 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
Belle Plaine's 25th-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 Belle Plaine, see the exposure-zones guide.