Highland, KS
How exposed is Highland to wildfire?
Highland's 484 buildings earn a 40th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Highland's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 40th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Highland rates 84.5% Minimal exposure against just 15.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 484 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Highland compares
Inside Kansas, Highland sits at just the 16th percentile even though it scores 40th 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, Highland ranks 18,902 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 604 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Highland and the insurance market
At the 40th national percentile, Highland rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Highland
Highland's 84.5% 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.
Where Highland's figures come from
Highland's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Highland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.