Edgerton, KS
How exposed is Edgerton to wildfire?
Edgerton sits at the 52nd 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 902 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edgerton at the 52nd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 26.7% of Edgerton's 902 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 73% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Edgerton compares
Edgerton's 52nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 35th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edgerton ranks 15,280 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,703 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 471 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Edgerton
Edgerton's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 73% of Edgerton 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 Edgerton's figures come from
Edgerton's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Edgerton's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.