Peck, KS
Peck wildfire risk explained
Peck sits at the 39th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 162 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peck at the 34th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 51.9% of Peck's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 48.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Peck compares
Peck's 39th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peck ranks 19,280 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,333 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 613 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
Peck's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Peck
Peck's 51.9% 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 Peck's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 162 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Peck. The exposure-zones guide covers what Peck's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.