Denton, KS
How exposed is Denton to wildfire?
Denton sits at the 49th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 135 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Denton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 23.7% of Denton's 135 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 76.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Denton against the rest of the country
Denton's 49th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 30th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denton ranks 16,001 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,491 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 503 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Denton and the insurance market
Denton's elevated wildfire rating (49th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Denton
Even with 76.3% of Denton 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 Denton's 16,001-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Denton, see the exposure-zones guide.