Caney, KS
Caney wildfire risk explained
Caney's 1,430 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Caney at the 81st percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Caney's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Caney's buildings (72.2%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Caney compares
Caney's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (79th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (80th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Caney ranks 6,365 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,477 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 154 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
Caney's 80th-percentile, 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 Caney
Caney's 72.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Caney's 6,365-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Caney, see the exposure-zones guide.