Mound Valley, KS
Mound Valley wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Mound Valley lands at the 55th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 301 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mound Valley's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 55th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 58.5% of Mound Valley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 41.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Mound Valley against the rest of the country
Mound Valley's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (41st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (55th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mound Valley ranks 14,303 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,597 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 422 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Mound Valley and the insurance market
Mound Valley's elevated rating (55th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mound Valley
Mound Valley's 58.5% 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.
Where Mound Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mound Valley's 14,303-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mound Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.