Mayetta, KS
Mayetta wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mayetta lands at the 87th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 210 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mayetta at the 89th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mayetta's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Mayetta (49.5% of 210 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34.3% sit in the Direct zone.
Mayetta against the rest of the country
Mayetta's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (87th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (87th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayetta ranks 4,191 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,479 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 95 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
Mayetta's 87th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Mayetta
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Mayetta (49.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mayetta's 4,191-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mayetta, see the exposure-zones guide.