Mission, KS
How exposed is Mission to wildfire?
Mission sits at the 29th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 3,446 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mission at the 32nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Mission's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 88.1% of Mission's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 11.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mission against the rest of the country
Mission's 29th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th 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, Mission ranks 22,308 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,848 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 655 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mission
Mission's moderate rating (29th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Mission's 88.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Mission's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mission, see the exposure-zones guide.