Mentor, KS
How exposed is Mentor to wildfire?
USFS scores Mentor at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 103 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mentor at the 22nd percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
60.2% of Mentor's 103 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 39.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Mentor against the rest of the country
Mentor's 27th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 7th 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, Mentor ranks 23,161 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,893 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 674 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 27th national percentile, Mentor 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
With 60.2% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mentor gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Mentor's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mentor's 23,161-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mentor's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.