Lehigh, KS
Lehigh, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lehigh's 154 buildings earn a 63rd-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.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lehigh's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 56th percentile nationally.
Lehigh's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 70.8% of Lehigh's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 29.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Lehigh compares
Lehigh scores 63rd nationally and 56th 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, Lehigh ranks 11,782 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,700 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 315 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Lehigh and the insurance market
Lehigh's 63rd-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
Lehigh's 70.8% 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.
Where Lehigh's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lehigh's 11,782-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lehigh's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.