Edson, KS
Edson wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Edson at the 27th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 62 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 Edson at the 23rd percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 35.5% of Edson's 62 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 64.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Edson against the rest of the country
Edson's 27th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Edson ranks 22,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 669 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Edson and the insurance market
At the 27th national percentile, Edson rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Edson's 64.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Edson's 22,910-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Edson, see the exposure-zones guide.