Council Grove, KS
How exposed is Council Grove to wildfire?
Council Grove's 1,365 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Council Grove at the 89th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Council Grove's buildings actually sit
Most of Council Grove's buildings (83.2%) 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.
Council Grove against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Council Grove's 93rd national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Council Grove ranks 2,169 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 47 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
Council Grove's very high rating (93rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 83.2% of Council Grove's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,365 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Council Grove. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Council Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.