Greensburg, KS
How exposed is Greensburg to wildfire?
USFS scores Greensburg at the 58th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 718 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 Greensburg at the 51st percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Greensburg's buildings (82% of 718) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Greensburg against the rest of the country
Greensburg's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (58th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greensburg ranks 13,205 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,478 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 369 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greensburg
Greensburg'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.
What would actually reduce this score
Greensburg's 82% 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 718 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greensburg. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greensburg, see the exposure-zones guide.