Park City, KS
How exposed is Park City to wildfire?
Park City's 3,758 buildings earn a 72nd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Park City at the 67th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
87.4% of Park City's 3,758 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 12.6% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Park City against the rest of the country
Park City scores 72nd nationally and 70th 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, Park City ranks 8,725 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,466 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 218 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Park City's 72nd-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.
Hardening a home in Park City
Even with 87.4% of Park City outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 3,758 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Park City. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Park City, see the exposure-zones guide.