Kismet, KS
How exposed is Kismet to wildfire?
Kismet's 237 buildings earn a 74th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Kismet at the 71st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Kismet's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 77.2% of Kismet's 237 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 22.8% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kismet compares
There's little gap between Kismet's 74th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kismet ranks 8,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,554 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 209 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Kismet and the insurance market
Kismet's high rating (74th 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
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Kismet (77.2% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kismet's 8,126-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kismet, see the exposure-zones guide.