Bushton, KS
How exposed is Bushton to wildfire?
USFS scores Bushton at the 37th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 248 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Bushton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 32nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Bushton rates 91.1% Minimal exposure against just 8.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 248 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Bushton compares
Bushton's 37th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th 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, Bushton ranks 20,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,201 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 627 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bushton
Bushton's moderate wildfire rating (37th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 91.1% of Bushton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 248 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bushton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Bushton, see the exposure-zones guide.