Kinsley, KS
Kinsley, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Kinsley's 1,281 buildings earn a 71st-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kinsley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 65th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,281 buildings are counted in Kinsley, and 87% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 9.8% in Direct exposure or the 3.1% rated Minimal.
Where Kinsley ranks
Kinsley scores 71st nationally and 69th 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, Kinsley ranks 9,072 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,192 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 225 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Kinsley and the insurance market
Kinsley's high rating (71st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Kinsley's 87% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kinsley's 9,072-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kinsley, see the exposure-zones guide.