Benedict, KS
Benedict, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Benedict sits at the 64th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 70 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Benedict at the 60th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Benedict's 70 counted buildings, 62.9% carry Direct exposure and only 34.3% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Benedict compares
There's little gap between Benedict's 64th national percentile and its 59th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Benedict ranks 11,376 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,277 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 298 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Benedict and the insurance market
At the 64th percentile nationally, Benedict carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Benedict (62.9%), 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
Benedict's 64th-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 Benedict, see the exposure-zones guide.