Kanopolis, KS
Kanopolis, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kanopolis sits at the 62nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 535 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kanopolis at the 56th percentile, close to its 62nd-percentile risk score.
Kanopolis's building exposure, zone by zone
Kanopolis rates 47.3% Minimal exposure against just 21.7% Direct and 31% Indirect — of 535 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Kanopolis ranks
There's little gap between Kanopolis's 62nd national percentile and its 56th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kanopolis ranks 11,942 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,798 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 318 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Kanopolis and the insurance market
Kanopolis's 62nd-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Kanopolis's 47.3% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 535 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kanopolis. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kanopolis, see the exposure-zones guide.