Parkerville, KS
How exposed is Parkerville to wildfire?
USFS scores Parkerville at the 88th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 42 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parkerville at the 84th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
61.9% of Parkerville's 42 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 26 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 38.1% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Parkerville ranks
Parkerville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (88th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkerville ranks 3,845 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,112 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 87 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Parkerville and the insurance market
Parkerville's very high rating (88th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
With 61.9% of Parkerville 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
Parkerville's 88th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Parkerville, see the exposure-zones guide.