Otis, KS
Otis wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Otis at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 300 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Otis's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Otis's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 94% of Otis's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 6% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Otis against the rest of the country
Otis ranks lower within Kansas (33rd percentile statewide) than its 50th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Otis ranks 15,659 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 485 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Otis
Otis's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Otis
Otis's 94% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Otis's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Otis, see the exposure-zones guide.