Geneseo, KS
Geneseo wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Geneseo at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 293 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Geneseo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Where Geneseo's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 78.8% of Geneseo's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Geneseo compares
Inside Kansas, Geneseo sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Geneseo ranks 15,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,816 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 478 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Geneseo and the insurance market
At the 51st national percentile, Geneseo rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Geneseo's 78.8% 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 293 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Geneseo. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Geneseo, see the exposure-zones guide.