Maize, KS
How exposed is Maize to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Maize at the 58th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,291 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 Maize at the 52nd percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
Where Maize's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 75.1% of Maize's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 23% Direct and 1.9% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Maize compares
There's little gap between Maize'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, Maize ranks 13,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,719 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 376 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 58th national percentile, Maize rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Maize
Maize's 75.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Maize's 13,328-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maize, see the exposure-zones guide.