Kansas, OH
Kansas, OH's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kansas lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 166 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kansas at the 2nd national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kansas's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Kansas's buildings (89.8% of 166) 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.
Where Kansas ranks
There's little gap between Kansas's 2nd national percentile and its 14th percentile inside Ohio, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kansas ranks 30,871 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,187 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,090 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Kansas and the insurance market
Kansas's low rating (2nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kansas
Kansas's 89.8% 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 166 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kansas. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Kansas, see the exposure-zones guide.