Bunker Hill, KS
Bunker Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Bunker Hill at the 64th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 156 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bunker Hill's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Where Bunker Hill's buildings actually sit
Most of Bunker Hill's buildings (72.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Bunker Hill ranks
Bunker Hill scores 64th nationally and 58th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bunker Hill ranks 11,501 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,615 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 303 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill's 64th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 72.4% of Bunker Hill's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 156 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bunker Hill. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bunker Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.