Gas, KS
Gas wildfire risk explained
Gas's 383 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Gas at the 58th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Gas rates 60.8% Minimal exposure against just 39.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 383 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Gas ranks
There's little gap between Gas's 58th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Gas ranks 13,302 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,559 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 374 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Gas
Gas's elevated wildfire rating (58th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 60.8% of Gas outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gas's 13,302-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Gas, see the exposure-zones guide.