Johnson City, KS
Johnson City wildfire risk explained
Johnson City's 1,001 buildings earn a 50th-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Johnson City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Where Johnson City's buildings actually sit
Most of Johnson City's buildings (87.1% of 1,001) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Johnson City against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Johnson City sits at just the 31st percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Johnson City ranks 15,911 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,924 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 498 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Johnson City and the insurance market
Johnson City's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Johnson City 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,001 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Johnson City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Johnson City, see the exposure-zones guide.