Mayfield, KS
How exposed is Mayfield to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mayfield at the 19th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 103 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mayfield at the 11th national percentile — 8 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mayfield's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 86.4% of Mayfield's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Mayfield ranks
Mayfield's 19th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 2nd ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mayfield ranks 25,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,892 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 707 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Mayfield and the insurance market
Mayfield's low wildfire rating (19th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Mayfield's 86.4% 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.
Where Mayfield's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mayfield's 25,557-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mayfield's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.