Oak Hill, KS
Oak Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Oak Hill at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 37 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Oak Hill at the 74th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Oak Hill's buildings (78.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Where Oak Hill ranks
Oak Hill scores 82nd nationally and 81st 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, Oak Hill ranks 5,732 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,228 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 139 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oak Hill
At the 82nd percentile nationally, Oak Hill carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 78.4% of Oak Hill'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.
Where Oak Hill's figures come from
Oak Hill's 82nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oak Hill's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.