Osborne, KS
Osborne wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Osborne at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,246 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Osborne at the 42nd national percentile — 2 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
USFS puts 95.1% of Osborne's 1,246 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 4.9% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Osborne compares
Inside Kansas, Osborne sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 44th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Osborne ranks 17,677 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,368 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 575 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Osborne
At the 44th national percentile, Osborne rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Osborne (95.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,246 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Osborne. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Osborne, see the exposure-zones guide.