Fulton, KS
Fulton wildfire risk explained
Fulton sits at the 59th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 136 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 Fulton at the 60th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Fulton rates 65.4% Minimal exposure against just 34.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 136 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Fulton compares
There's little gap between Fulton's 59th national percentile and its 51st percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fulton ranks 12,948 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,440 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 352 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
Fulton's elevated wildfire rating (59th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Fulton
Fulton's 65.4% 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 136 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Fulton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Fulton, see the exposure-zones guide.