Codell, KS
Codell wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Codell lands at the 71st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 65 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Codell at the 68th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Codell's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Codell's 65 counted buildings, 50.8% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Codell ranks
Codell's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (68th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (71st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Codell ranks 9,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,457 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 229 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Codell's 71st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Codell (50.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Codell's 71st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Codell, see the exposure-zones guide.