Harper, KS
Harper wildfire risk explained
Harper's 1,061 buildings earn a 25th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Harper at the 21st percentile, close to its 25th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 89.3% of Harper's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 10.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Harper against the rest of the country
Harper ranks lower within Kansas (5th percentile statewide) than its 25th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Harper ranks 23,663 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,513 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 683 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Harper and the insurance market
At the 25th national percentile, Harper rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Harper's 89.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Harper's 23,663-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Harper, see the exposure-zones guide.