Hudson, KS
How exposed is Hudson to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Hudson lands at the 90th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 112 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 Hudson at the 86th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Hudson's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 75.9% of Hudson's 112 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 18.8% Direct and 5.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Hudson compares
Hudson's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hudson ranks 3,083 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,539 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 67 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
Hudson's 90th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 75.9% of Hudson'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 Hudson's 3,083-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Hudson, see the exposure-zones guide.