Glasco, KS
Glasco, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Glasco at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 445 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Glasco at the 9th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Glasco's building exposure, zone by zone
96.6% of Glasco's 445 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 3.4% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Glasco against the rest of the country
Glasco's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (0th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (12th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glasco ranks 27,761 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,364 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 718 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Glasco and the insurance market
Glasco's low wildfire rating (12th 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 Glasco
Glasco's 96.6% 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.
Where Glasco's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 445 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glasco. The exposure-zones guide covers what Glasco's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.