Louisburg, KS
Louisburg wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Louisburg at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,893 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Louisburg at the 58th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
38.5% of Louisburg's 1,893 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 29.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Louisburg compares
There's little gap between Louisburg's 58th national percentile and its 48th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Louisburg ranks 13,327 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,785 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 375 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Louisburg and the insurance market
At the 58th national percentile, Louisburg rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 38.5% of Louisburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Louisburg's 13,327-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Louisburg, see the exposure-zones guide.