Fort Riley, KS
Fort Riley, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Fort Riley sits at the 89th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,841 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fort Riley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 86th percentile nationally.
Fort Riley's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Fort Riley's buildings (47.5%) 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.
How Fort Riley compares
Fort Riley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (89th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (89th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fort Riley ranks 3,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,947 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 80 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
Fort Riley's 89th-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
Fort Riley's 47.5% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,841 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fort Riley. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Fort Riley, see the exposure-zones guide.