Coyville, KS
Coyville, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Coyville lands at the 85th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 77 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Coyville at the 86th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Coyville's building exposure, zone by zone
77 buildings are counted in Coyville, and 55.8% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Where Coyville ranks
Coyville scores 85th nationally and 84th 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, Coyville ranks 4,853 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,009 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 114 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Coyville and the insurance market
Coyville's 85th-percentile, very 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 55.8% of Coyville in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Coyville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Coyville's 4,853-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Coyville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.