Mound City, KS
How exposed is Mound City to wildfire?
Mound City sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 526 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mound City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Mound City's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 25.7% of Mound City's 526 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 74.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Mound City ranks
There's little gap between Mound City's 67th national percentile and its 62nd percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mound City ranks 10,557 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,922 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 276 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mound City
At the 67th percentile nationally, Mound City carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 74.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Mound City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mound City's 10,557-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mound City, see the exposure-zones guide.