Grandview Plaza, KS
Grandview Plaza, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Grandview Plaza at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 589 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 Grandview Plaza at the 82nd percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Grandview Plaza's building exposure, zone by zone
589 buildings are counted in Grandview Plaza, and 90% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 10% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Grandview Plaza against the rest of the country
Grandview Plaza scores 85th nationally and 85th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grandview Plaza ranks 4,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,978 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 108 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
Grandview Plaza's 85th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Grandview Plaza (90% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Grandview Plaza's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Grandview Plaza, see the exposure-zones guide.