Frankfort, KS
Frankfort, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Frankfort sits at the 78th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 654 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Frankfort at the 72nd percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Frankfort's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 85.9% of Frankfort's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 14.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Frankfort ranks
Frankfort scores 78th nationally and 76th 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, Frankfort ranks 6,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 173 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Frankfort
Frankfort's high rating (78th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Frankfort's 85.9% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 654 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Frankfort. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Frankfort, see the exposure-zones guide.