New Strawn, KS
New Strawn, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
New Strawn sits at the 92nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 305 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts New Strawn at the 89th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
New Strawn's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in New Strawn: 62.6% of its 305 buildings, versus 37.4% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where New Strawn ranks
New Strawn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (92nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Strawn ranks 2,548 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,495 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 54 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in New Strawn
New Strawn's very high rating (92nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in New Strawn
Because Direct exposure dominates in New Strawn (62.6%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Strawn's 2,548-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond New Strawn, see the exposure-zones guide.