Kickapoo Site 5, KS
How exposed is Kickapoo Site 5 to wildfire?
Kickapoo Site 5's 26 buildings earn a 80th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kickapoo Site 5 at the 81st percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Kickapoo Site 5's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Kickapoo Site 5's 26 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.
Kickapoo Site 5 against the rest of the country
Kickapoo Site 5 scores 80th nationally and 79th 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, Kickapoo Site 5 ranks 6,299 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 152 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kickapoo Site 5
At the 80th percentile nationally, Kickapoo Site 5 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kickapoo Site 5 (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kickapoo Site 5's 6,299-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kickapoo Site 5, see the exposure-zones guide.