Holcomb, KS
Holcomb, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Holcomb's 830 buildings earn a 43rd-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Holcomb at the 40th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 90% of Holcomb's 830 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 9.9% Direct and 0.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Holcomb ranks
Holcomb's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 19th 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, Holcomb ranks 17,926 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 584 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Holcomb's elevated wildfire rating (43rd 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.
Hardening a home in Holcomb
Because 90% of Holcomb's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Holcomb's 17,926-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Holcomb, see the exposure-zones guide.