Larned, KS
Larned, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Larned lands at the 50th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,535 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Larned at the 45th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Larned's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Larned's buildings (50.4%) 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.
Larned against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Larned sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 50th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Larned ranks 15,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,234 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 492 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
Larned's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Larned
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Larned (50.4% 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
Larned's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Larned, see the exposure-zones guide.