Nashville, KS
Nashville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nashville lands at the 84th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 111 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nashville at the 80th percentile, close to its 84th-percentile risk score.
Nashville's building exposure, zone by zone
111 buildings are counted in Nashville, and 84.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 15.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Nashville compares
Nashville scores 84th nationally and 83rd within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nashville ranks 5,106 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,587 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 125 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Nashville and the insurance market
Nashville's 84th-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Nashville (84.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where Nashville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 111 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Nashville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nashville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.