Lewis, KS
How exposed is Lewis to wildfire?
USFS scores Lewis at the 19th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 333 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lewis at the 15th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lewis's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 92.2% of Lewis's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Lewis compares
Lewis ranks lower within Kansas (2nd percentile statewide) than its 19th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lewis ranks 25,461 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,732 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 706 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Lewis and the insurance market
Lewis's low wildfire rating (19th 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.
Hardening a home in Lewis
With 92.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lewis gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lewis's 25,461-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lewis, see the exposure-zones guide.