Leawood, KS
Leawood, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Leawood at the 35th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 12,259 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Leawood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 37th percentile nationally.
Where Leawood's buildings actually sit
Leawood rates 61.1% Minimal exposure against just 29.4% Direct and 9.5% Indirect — of 12,259 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 12,259 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Leawood ranks
Leawood ranks lower within Kansas (12th percentile statewide) than its 35th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leawood ranks 20,483 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,263 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 633 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Leawood
At the 35th national percentile, Leawood rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Leawood's 61.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,259 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Leawood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leawood, see the exposure-zones guide.