Morland, KS
How exposed is Morland to wildfire?
USFS scores Morland at the 69th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 189 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Morland at the 67th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Morland's buildings actually sit
Most of Morland's buildings (74.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Morland compares
Morland's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (66th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Morland ranks 9,638 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,278 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 244 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Morland and the insurance market
Morland's high rating (69th 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
Because 74.6% of Morland'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
Morland's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Morland, see the exposure-zones guide.