Canton, KS
Canton, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Canton's 505 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canton at the 41st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Canton's buildings actually sit
Canton rates 94.5% Minimal exposure against just 5.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 505 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Canton compares
Canton's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canton ranks 17,775 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,254 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 579 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Canton
Canton's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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.
Hardening a home in Canton
Canton's 94.5% 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 Canton's figures come from
Canton's 44th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Canton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.