Haysville, KS
Haysville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Haysville lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 4,855 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Haysville at the 45th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Haysville's buildings actually sit
Only 6.9% of Haysville's 4,855 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Haysville against the rest of the country
Haysville's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haysville ranks 15,910 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,521 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 497 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Haysville
Haysville's elevated wildfire rating (50th 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
Even with 93.1% of Haysville 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 4,855 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Haysville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Haysville, see the exposure-zones guide.