Greenleaf, KS
How exposed is Greenleaf to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Greenleaf at the 71st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 318 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greenleaf at the 62nd national percentile — 10 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Greenleaf's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 86.2% of Greenleaf's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Greenleaf against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Greenleaf's 71st national percentile and its 69th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenleaf ranks 9,013 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,151 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 223 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Greenleaf and the insurance market
Greenleaf's 71st-percentile, 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.
Hardening a home in Greenleaf
Even with 86.2% of Greenleaf 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.
Where Greenleaf's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenleaf's 9,013-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Greenleaf's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.