Peru, KS
How exposed is Peru to wildfire?
Peru's 195 buildings earn a 93rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Peru's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 94th percentile nationally.
Peru's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 60% of Peru's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 40% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 117 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Peru ranks
Peru's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (93rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (93rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Peru ranks 2,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,028 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 51 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Peru
Peru's 93rd-percentile, very 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 60% of Peru 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
Peru's 93rd-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 Peru, see the exposure-zones guide.