Moscow, KS
How exposed is Moscow to wildfire?
USFS scores Moscow at the 41st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 219 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Moscow at the 38th percentile, close to its 41st-percentile risk score.
Moscow's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.4% of Moscow's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Moscow against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Moscow sits at just the 18th percentile even though it scores 41st 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, Moscow ranks 18,493 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,159 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 595 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 41st national percentile, Moscow rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Moscow's 90.4% 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 Moscow's 18,493-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Moscow, see the exposure-zones guide.