Milford, KS
Milford wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Milford at the 92nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 325 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 Milford at the 88th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
Milford's building exposure, zone by zone
73.5% of Milford's 325 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 26.2% Direct and 0.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Milford ranks
There's little gap between Milford's 92nd national percentile and its 93rd percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Milford ranks 2,489 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 52 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Milford and the insurance market
At the 92nd percentile nationally, Milford carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Milford
Because 73.5% of Milford's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 325 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Milford. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Milford, see the exposure-zones guide.