Kickapoo Tribal Center, KS
Kickapoo Tribal Center, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Kickapoo Tribal Center at the 78th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 132 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 Kickapoo Tribal Center at the 79th percentile, close to its 78th-percentile risk score.
Where Kickapoo Tribal Center's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Kickapoo Tribal Center: 72% of its 132 buildings, versus 25% Indirect and 3% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Kickapoo Tribal Center ranks
Kickapoo Tribal Center's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (76th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (78th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kickapoo Tribal Center ranks 6,967 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 176 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
Kickapoo Tribal Center's 78th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Kickapoo Tribal Center (72%), 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
Kickapoo Tribal Center's 78th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Kickapoo Tribal Center, see the exposure-zones guide.