Blue Mound, KS
How exposed is Blue Mound to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blue Mound at the 53rd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 207 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Blue Mound's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 48.3% of Blue Mound's 207 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.5% carry Indirect; the remaining 51.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Blue Mound compares
Blue Mound ranks lower within Kansas (38th percentile statewide) than its 53rd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Mound ranks 14,779 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,594 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 447 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Mound
Blue Mound's elevated rating (53rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Blue Mound's 51.2% 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.
Where Blue Mound's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Mound's 14,779-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blue Mound's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.