Douglass, KS
Douglass, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Douglass at the 81st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 942 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Douglass at the 74th percentile, close to its 81st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Douglass's buildings (86.7%) 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.
Douglass against the rest of the country
Douglass scores 81st nationally and 80th 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, Douglass ranks 5,892 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,370 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 143 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Douglass and the insurance market
Douglass's 81st-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
Douglass's 86.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Douglass's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Douglass's 5,892-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Douglass's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.