Corning, KS
Corning, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Corning's 156 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Corning at the 78th 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
USFS classifies 69.2% of Corning's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 30.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Corning compares
Corning scores 80th nationally and 78th 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, Corning ranks 6,397 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,616 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 158 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
Corning's 80th-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
With 69.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Corning 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
Corning's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Corning, see the exposure-zones guide.