Gridley, KS
How exposed is Gridley to wildfire?
Gridley's 302 buildings earn a 86th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Gridley at the 84th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Where Gridley's buildings actually sit
Gridley rates 72.2% Minimal exposure against just 27.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 302 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Gridley ranks
Gridley scores 86th nationally and 86th 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, Gridley ranks 4,344 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,572 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 99 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Gridley and the insurance market
Gridley's very high rating (86th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Gridley's 72.2% 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 Gridley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Gridley's 4,344-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Gridley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.