Miltonvale, KS
How exposed is Miltonvale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Miltonvale at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 451 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 Miltonvale at the 71st percentile, close to its 75th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 78.1% of Miltonvale's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.5% Direct and 0.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Miltonvale ranks
Miltonvale scores 75th nationally and 72nd within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Miltonvale ranks 7,846 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,255 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 201 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Miltonvale
Miltonvale's high rating (75th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 78.1% of Miltonvale outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 451 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Miltonvale. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Miltonvale, see the exposure-zones guide.