Hazelton, KS
Hazelton, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Hazelton sits at the 37th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 105 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hazelton at the 29th percentile, close to its 37th-percentile risk score.
Hazelton's building exposure, zone by zone
74.3% of Hazelton's 105 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 25.7% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Hazelton against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Hazelton sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 37th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hazelton ranks 19,784 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,802 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 623 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Hazelton and the insurance market
At the 37th national percentile, Hazelton 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
Hazelton's 74.3% 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
Hazelton's 37th-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 Hazelton, see the exposure-zones guide.