Parkerfield, KS
How exposed is Parkerfield to wildfire?
Parkerfield's 281 buildings earn a 75th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parkerfield at the 72nd national percentile — 3 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
Direct exposure dominates in Parkerfield: 92.2% of its 281 buildings, versus 3.9% Indirect and 3.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Parkerfield ranks
There's little gap between Parkerfield's 75th national percentile and its 71st percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkerfield ranks 7,971 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 207 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parkerfield
Parkerfield's 75th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 92.2% of Parkerfield in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 281 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parkerfield. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Parkerfield, see the exposure-zones guide.