Fall River, KS
Fall River, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Fall River at the 97th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 150 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 Fall River at the 96th percentile, close to its 97th-percentile risk score.
Where Fall River's buildings actually sit
54.7% of Fall River's 150 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 45.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Fall River against the rest of the country
Fall River's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (98th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (97th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fall River ranks 1,003 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,877 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 15 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Fall River and the insurance market
Fall River's 97th-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.
Hardening a home in Fall River
Because 54.7% of Fall River'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.
Where Fall River's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Fall River's 1,003-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Fall River's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.