Centralia, KS
Centralia, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Centralia lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 362 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Centralia at the 57th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Where Centralia's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 82.3% of Centralia's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Centralia ranks
Centralia scores 62nd nationally and 55th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Centralia ranks 12,039 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,017 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 324 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Centralia
At the 62nd percentile nationally, Centralia carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Centralia
Centralia's 82.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Centralia's 12,039-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Centralia, see the exposure-zones guide.