Belpre, KS
How exposed is Belpre to wildfire?
USFS scores Belpre at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 112 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Belpre at the 21st national percentile — 9 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
76.8% of Belpre's 112 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 23.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Belpre compares
Belpre's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belpre ranks 22,338 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,538 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 656 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Belpre
At the 29th national percentile, Belpre rates moderate 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
Belpre's 76.8% 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
Belpre's 29th-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 Belpre, see the exposure-zones guide.