Cimarron, KS
How exposed is Cimarron to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cimarron lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,136 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cimarron at the 61st national percentile — 2 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
Most of Cimarron's buildings (86.5%) 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.
Where Cimarron ranks
Cimarron scores 63rd nationally and 57th 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, Cimarron ranks 11,661 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,038 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 311 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Cimarron and the insurance market
Cimarron's 63rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Cimarron (86.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cimarron's 11,661-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Cimarron, see the exposure-zones guide.