Little River, KS
How exposed is Little River to wildfire?
Little River sits at the 79th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 360 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Little River at the 70th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
91.9% of Little River's 360 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.1% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Little River against the rest of the country
Little River scores 79th nationally and 77th 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, Little River ranks 6,741 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,056 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 169 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
Little River's 79th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 91.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Little River 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 Little River's 6,741-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Little River, see the exposure-zones guide.