Junction City, KS
Junction City wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Junction City at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 9,230 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Junction City at the 74th percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Where Junction City's buildings actually sit
Most of Junction City's buildings (89.9% of 9,230) 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. At 9,230 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Junction City ranks
Junction City scores 79th nationally and 78th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Junction City ranks 6,491 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,786 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 159 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Junction City and the insurance market
At the 79th percentile nationally, Junction City carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 89.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Junction 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
Junction City's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Junction City, see the exposure-zones guide.