Jewell, KS
How exposed is Jewell to wildfire?
Jewell's 391 buildings earn a 16th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jewell at the 12th percentile, close to its 16th-percentile risk score.
Jewell's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 95.1% of Jewell's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 4.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Jewell against the rest of the country
Jewell's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (16th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Jewell ranks 26,503 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,391 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 711 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
At the 16th national percentile, Jewell rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Jewell
With 95.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Jewell gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jewell's 26,503-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Jewell, see the exposure-zones guide.