Leavenworth, KS
Leavenworth wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Leavenworth lands at the 59th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 13,407 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Leavenworth's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Leavenworth's building exposure, zone by zone
41.3% of Leavenworth's 13,407 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 26.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 13,407 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Leavenworth compares
Leavenworth scores 59th nationally and 51st 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, Leavenworth ranks 13,042 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,131 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 357 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Leavenworth and the insurance market
Leavenworth's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 41.3% of Leavenworth outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Leavenworth's 13,042-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leavenworth, see the exposure-zones guide.