Hiawatha, KS
Hiawatha wildfire risk explained
Hiawatha's 2,092 buildings earn a 60th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hiawatha's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Hiawatha's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Hiawatha's buildings (89.8% of 2,092) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Where Hiawatha ranks
There's little gap between Hiawatha's 60th national percentile and its 52nd percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hiawatha ranks 12,668 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,214 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 343 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Hiawatha and the insurance market
Hiawatha's elevated rating (60th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Hiawatha's 89.8% 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
Hiawatha's 60th-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 Hiawatha, see the exposure-zones guide.