Lorraine, KS
Lorraine, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Lorraine sits at the 24th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 123 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Lorraine at the 19th national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Lorraine's building exposure, zone by zone
Lorraine rates 87.8% Minimal exposure against just 12.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 123 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Lorraine against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Lorraine sits at just the 5th percentile even though it scores 24th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lorraine ranks 24,044 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,021 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 688 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lorraine
Lorraine's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 87.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Lorraine 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 Lorraine's 24,044-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Lorraine, see the exposure-zones guide.