Enterprise, KS
Enterprise wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Enterprise at the 84th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 488 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Enterprise at the 79th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Enterprise's building exposure, zone by zone
78.5% of Enterprise's 488 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 21.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Enterprise compares
Enterprise scores 84th nationally and 84th 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, Enterprise ranks 5,015 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,567 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 118 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Enterprise and the insurance market
Enterprise's 84th-percentile, very 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 78.5% of Enterprise 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Enterprise's 5,015-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Enterprise, see the exposure-zones guide.