Moran, KS
Moran wildfire risk explained
Moran's 379 buildings earn a 47th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moran at the 47th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Moran's buildings actually sit
Most of Moran's buildings (87.1% of 379) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
Moran against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Moran sits at just the 26th percentile even though it scores 47th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moran ranks 16,575 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 535 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moran
Moran's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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
Moran's 87.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moran's 16,575-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Moran, see the exposure-zones guide.