Kickapoo Site 2, KS
Kickapoo Site 2, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kickapoo Site 2 at the 77th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 17 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kickapoo Site 2's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 78th percentile nationally.
Kickapoo Site 2's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Kickapoo Site 2's 17 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 17 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
How Kickapoo Site 2 compares
There's little gap between Kickapoo Site 2's 77th national percentile and its 75th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kickapoo Site 2 ranks 7,118 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,475 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 183 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
At the 77th percentile nationally, Kickapoo Site 2 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.
Hardening a home in Kickapoo Site 2
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kickapoo Site 2 (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Kickapoo Site 2's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 17 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kickapoo Site 2. Small places like Kickapoo Site 2 (17 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.