Delphos, KS
Delphos, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Delphos lands at the 11th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 361 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Delphos at the 9th percentile, close to its 11th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 13% of Delphos's 361 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 87% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Delphos ranks
Delphos's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Delphos ranks 28,076 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,036 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 719 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Delphos and the insurance market
Delphos's low rating (11th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Delphos
Even with 87% of Delphos outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Delphos's 28,076-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Delphos, see the exposure-zones guide.