Fairway, KS
How exposed is Fairway to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Fairway lands at the 30th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,912 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 Fairway at the 33rd percentile, close to its 30th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Fairway's buildings (65.2% of 1,912) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Fairway compares
Inside Kansas, Fairway sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 30th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fairway ranks 22,085 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,726 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 650 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fairway
At the 30th national percentile, Fairway rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Fairway
Fairway's 65.2% 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.
Where Fairway's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,912 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fairway. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fairway's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.