Lindsborg, KS
Lindsborg wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Lindsborg at the 31st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 1,718 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Lindsborg at the 26th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Lindsborg's buildings actually sit
93.3% of Lindsborg's 1,718 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 6.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Lindsborg compares
Lindsborg ranks lower within Kansas (10th percentile statewide) than its 31st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lindsborg ranks 21,739 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,355 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 648 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
Lindsborg's moderate rating (31st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Lindsborg's 93.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Lindsborg's 21,739-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lindsborg, see the exposure-zones guide.