Burr Oak, KS
How exposed is Burr Oak to wildfire?
USFS scores Burr Oak at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 274 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Burr Oak at the 21st percentile, close to its 24th-percentile risk score.
Burr Oak's building exposure, zone by zone
Burr Oak rates 83.9% Minimal exposure against just 16.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 274 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Burr Oak against the rest of the country
Burr Oak's 24th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 4th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Burr Oak ranks 24,103 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,393 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 689 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Burr Oak's moderate rating (24th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Burr Oak
Burr Oak's 83.9% 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 Burr Oak's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 274 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Burr Oak. The exposure-zones guide covers what Burr Oak's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.