Home, KS
How exposed is Home to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Home lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 212 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Home at the 57th national percentile — 5 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
Home rates 67.5% Minimal exposure against just 32.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 212 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Home compares
There's little gap between Home's 62nd national percentile and its 55th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Home ranks 12,002 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,394 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 323 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Home and the insurance market
Home's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 67.5% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Home gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Home's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 212 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Home. The exposure-zones guide covers what Home's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.