Byers, KS
Byers, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Byers at the 40th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 47 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Byers at the 28th national percentile — 12 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Byers's building exposure, zone by zone
63.8% of Byers's 47 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 36.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Byers compares
Inside Kansas, Byers sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 40th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Byers ranks 18,935 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,995 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 605 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
At the 40th national percentile, Byers rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 63.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Byers gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Byers's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Byers's 18,935-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Byers's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.