Carbondale, KS
Carbondale wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Carbondale at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 728 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Carbondale at the 68th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Carbondale rates 83.2% Minimal exposure against just 16.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 728 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Carbondale compares
There's little gap between Carbondale's 70th national percentile and its 67th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Carbondale ranks 9,578 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,362 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 240 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Carbondale
Carbondale's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Carbondale
Carbondale's 83.2% 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 Carbondale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Carbondale's 9,578-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Carbondale's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.