Eastshore, KS
Eastshore wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Eastshore at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 129 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Eastshore's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.6% of Eastshore's 129 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Eastshore compares
There's little gap between Eastshore's 60th national percentile and its 53rd percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eastshore ranks 12,481 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,750 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 340 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Eastshore and the insurance market
Eastshore's 60th-percentile, 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
Even with 87.6% of Eastshore 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.
Where Eastshore's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eastshore's 12,481-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eastshore's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.