Lecompton, KS
Lecompton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lecompton at the 70th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 391 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lecompton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
Lecompton's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Lecompton's 391 counted buildings, 61.1% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Lecompton against the rest of the country
Lecompton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (67th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lecompton ranks 9,517 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,392 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 238 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Lecompton and the insurance market
Lecompton's 70th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 61.1% of Lecompton in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lecompton's 9,517-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Lecompton, see the exposure-zones guide.