Harveyville, KS
Harveyville wildfire risk explained
Harveyville's 170 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Harveyville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 76th percentile nationally.
Harveyville's building exposure, zone by zone
81.2% of Harveyville's 170 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Harveyville against the rest of the country
Harveyville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (79th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (80th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Harveyville ranks 6,331 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,025 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 153 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Harveyville and the insurance market
Harveyville's 80th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 81.2% of Harveyville 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.
More on how this number was built
Harveyville's 80th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Harveyville, see the exposure-zones guide.