Burdick, KS
How exposed is Burdick to wildfire?
Burdick's 105 buildings earn a 85th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Burdick at the 79th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Burdick's buildings actually sit
64.8% of Burdick's 105 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 68 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 35.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Burdick against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Burdick's 85th national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burdick ranks 4,818 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,801 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 113 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Burdick and the insurance market
Burdick's 85th-percentile, very 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.
Hardening a home in Burdick
Burdick's 64.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Burdick's 85th-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 Burdick, see the exposure-zones guide.