Dodge City, KS
How exposed is Dodge City to wildfire?
Dodge City's 10,523 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dodge City at the 47th percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Dodge City rates 63.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.5% Direct and 23.7% Indirect — of 10,523 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 10,523 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Dodge City ranks
Dodge City ranks lower within Kansas (29th percentile statewide) than its 49th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dodge City ranks 16,163 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,515 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 511 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Dodge City and the insurance market
At the 49th national percentile, Dodge City rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Dodge City
Even with 63.8% of Dodge City 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 Dodge City's 16,163-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Dodge City, see the exposure-zones guide.