Oaklawn-Sunview, KS
Oaklawn-Sunview wildfire risk explained
Oaklawn-Sunview sits at the 66th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,312 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Oaklawn-Sunview at the 62nd national percentile — 5 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Oaklawn-Sunview's buildings actually sit
Oaklawn-Sunview rates 98.6% Minimal exposure against just 1.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,312 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Oaklawn-Sunview ranks
Oaklawn-Sunview's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (61st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Oaklawn-Sunview ranks 10,678 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,010 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 285 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Oaklawn-Sunview
Oaklawn-Sunview's 66th-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
With 98.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Oaklawn-Sunview gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Oaklawn-Sunview's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Oaklawn-Sunview's 10,678-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Oaklawn-Sunview's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.