Burden, KS
How exposed is Burden to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Burden lands at the 81st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 397 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Burden at the 76th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Burden's building exposure, zone by zone
397 buildings are counted in Burden, and 76.6% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 23.4% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Burden compares
There's little gap between Burden's 81st national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burden ranks 5,923 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 145 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Burden and the insurance market
At the 81st percentile nationally, Burden carries the very 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Burden (76.6% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Burden's 5,923-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Burden, see the exposure-zones guide.