Natoma, KS
Natoma wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Natoma at the 71st national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 363 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Natoma at the 69th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
363 buildings are counted in Natoma, and 83.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.5% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Natoma compares
Natoma's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (69th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (71st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Natoma ranks 9,073 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,000 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 226 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Natoma
Natoma's 71st-percentile, 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
Because 83.5% of Natoma's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 363 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Natoma. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Natoma, see the exposure-zones guide.