Overland Park, KS
Overland Park, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Overland Park at the 44th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 60,334 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Overland Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 44th percentile nationally.
Overland Park's building exposure, zone by zone
82.9% of Overland Park's 60,334 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 60,334 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Overland Park against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Overland Park 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, Overland Park ranks 17,678 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 576 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Overland Park
Overland Park's elevated rating (44th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Overland Park's 82.9% 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.
Where Overland Park's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Overland Park's 17,678-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Overland Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.