Moundridge, KS
How exposed is Moundridge to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Moundridge lands at the 27th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 1,082 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Moundridge at the 23rd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Moundridge's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Moundridge's buildings (89.4% of 1,082) 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.
Where Moundridge ranks
Moundridge's 27th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 6th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moundridge ranks 23,162 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,394 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 675 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Moundridge
Moundridge's moderate wildfire rating (27th 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.
Hardening a home in Moundridge
Even with 89.4% of Moundridge outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Moundridge's 23,162-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Moundridge, see the exposure-zones guide.