Louisville, KS
How exposed is Louisville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Louisville lands at the 68th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 149 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Louisville at the 68th percentile, close to its 68th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Louisville's buildings (53.7% of 149) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Louisville against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Louisville's 68th national percentile and its 65th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Louisville ranks 10,051 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,912 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 256 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Louisville
Louisville's high rating (68th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Louisville
Louisville's 53.7% 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
Louisville's 68th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Louisville, see the exposure-zones guide.