Cheney, KS
How exposed is Cheney to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cheney lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,103 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cheney's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 63rd percentile nationally.
Cheney's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Cheney's buildings (52.3% of 1,103) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Cheney against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Cheney's 68th national percentile and its 64th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cheney ranks 10,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,262 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 262 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cheney
Cheney's 68th-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 Cheney
With 52.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cheney gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,103 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Cheney. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cheney, see the exposure-zones guide.