Lenexa, KS
Lenexa, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lenexa sits at the 46th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 17,332 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lenexa at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Lenexa's buildings actually sit
73.4% of Lenexa's 17,332 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 15% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 17,332 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Lenexa against the rest of the country
Lenexa's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 24th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lenexa ranks 16,886 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 823 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 547 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
Lenexa's elevated wildfire rating (46th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lenexa's 73.4% 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
Lenexa's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lenexa, see the exposure-zones guide.