Lyons, KS
Lyons, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Lyons at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 2,163 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Lyons's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 25th percentile nationally.
Lyons's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 6% of Lyons's 2,163 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 94% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Lyons compares
Lyons's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Lyons ranks 22,399 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,035 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 658 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Lyons
At the 29th national percentile, Lyons rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 94% of Lyons 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.
Where Lyons's figures come from
Lyons's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Lyons's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.