Long Island, KS
How exposed is Long Island to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Long Island at the 49th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 146 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Long Island's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Where Long Island's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 80.8% of Long Island's 146 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 10.3% Direct and 8.9% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Long Island compares
Long Island ranks lower within Kansas (29th percentile statewide) than its 49th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Long Island ranks 16,196 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,020 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 514 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Long Island and the insurance market
Long Island's elevated wildfire rating (49th 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
Long Island's 80.8% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Long Island's 49th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Long Island, see the exposure-zones guide.