Kensington, KS
Kensington, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kensington at the 22nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 430 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 Kensington at the 18th percentile, close to its 22nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 1.2% of Kensington's 430 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Kensington against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Kensington sits at just the 4th percentile even though it scores 22nd 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, Kensington ranks 24,742 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,644 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 694 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
Kensington's moderate wildfire rating (22nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Kensington's 98.8% 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.
Where Kensington's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kensington's 24,742-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kensington's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.