Easton, KS
Easton wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Easton at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 162 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Easton at the 69th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 81.5% of Easton's 162 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Easton against the rest of the country
Easton scores 68th nationally and 65th 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, Easton ranks 10,018 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 254 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Easton
Easton's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Easton
Easton's 81.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Easton's 10,018-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Easton, see the exposure-zones guide.