Edmond, KS
Edmond, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Edmond lands at the 55th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 68 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Edmond at the 53rd percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Where Edmond's buildings actually sit
Most of Edmond's buildings (72.1%) 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.
Where Edmond ranks
There's little gap between Edmond's 55th national percentile and its 42nd percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edmond ranks 14,273 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,353 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 419 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Edmond's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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.
Hardening a home in Edmond
Because 72.1% of Edmond's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Edmond's 14,273-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Edmond, see the exposure-zones guide.