Garden Plain, KS
How exposed is Garden Plain to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Garden Plain at the 57th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 499 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 Garden Plain at the 52nd percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Where Garden Plain's buildings actually sit
Only 13.6% of Garden Plain's 499 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.4% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Garden Plain ranks
There's little gap between Garden Plain's 57th national percentile and its 46th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Garden Plain ranks 13,643 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,379 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 393 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
Garden Plain's elevated rating (57th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Garden Plain
Garden Plain's 86.4% 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
Garden Plain's 57th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Garden Plain, see the exposure-zones guide.