Leoti, KS
How exposed is Leoti to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Leoti at the 28th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 1,073 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Leoti at the 25th percentile, close to its 28th-percentile risk score.
Where Leoti's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 84.8% of Leoti's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 15.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Leoti ranks
Leoti ranks lower within Kansas (8th percentile statewide) than its 28th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Leoti ranks 22,530 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,443 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 664 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Leoti and the insurance market
At the 28th national percentile, Leoti rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Leoti
Even with 84.8% of Leoti 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 Leoti's 22,530-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Leoti, see the exposure-zones guide.