Bucyrus, KS
Bucyrus wildfire risk explained
Bucyrus's 169 buildings earn a 36th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bucyrus at the 34th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bucyrus's building exposure, zone by zone
51.5% of Bucyrus's 169 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 87 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 48.5% are Minimal.
Bucyrus against the rest of the country
Bucyrus's 36th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 12th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bucyrus ranks 20,321 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,067 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 632 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Bucyrus and the insurance market
Bucyrus's moderate wildfire rating (36th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 51.5% of Bucyrus in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 169 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bucyrus. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bucyrus, see the exposure-zones guide.