Kirwin, KS
Kirwin wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Kirwin lands at the 58th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 230 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kirwin at the 56th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Kirwin's buildings actually sit
Most of Kirwin's buildings (93%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Kirwin compares
Kirwin's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (58th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kirwin ranks 13,142 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,793 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 366 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Kirwin and the insurance market
Kirwin's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kirwin
Because 93% of Kirwin's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kirwin's 13,142-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kirwin, see the exposure-zones guide.