Hillsboro, KS
How exposed is Hillsboro to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Hillsboro at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,668 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hillsboro at the 31st percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 6.2% of Hillsboro's 1,668 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Hillsboro compares
Hillsboro's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hillsboro ranks 19,532 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,529 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 617 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hillsboro
At the 38th national percentile, Hillsboro 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
Even with 93.8% of Hillsboro 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.
Where Hillsboro's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,668 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Hillsboro. The exposure-zones guide covers what Hillsboro's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.