Hoxie, KS
How exposed is Hoxie to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hoxie lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 978 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Hoxie at the 50th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Where Hoxie's buildings actually sit
Most of Hoxie's buildings (88.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Hoxie compares
Inside Kansas, Hoxie sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 52nd 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, Hoxie ranks 15,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,086 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 466 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Hoxie and the insurance market
Hoxie's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Hoxie (88.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hoxie's 15,187-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hoxie, see the exposure-zones guide.