Piedmont, KS
Piedmont wildfire risk explained
Piedmont's 94 buildings earn a 96th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Piedmont at the 95th percentile, close to its 96th-percentile risk score.
Piedmont's building exposure, zone by zone
94 buildings are counted in Piedmont, and 97.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Piedmont compares
There's little gap between Piedmont's 96th national percentile and its 97th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Piedmont ranks 1,289 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,310 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 19 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Piedmont
At the 96th percentile nationally, Piedmont carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Piedmont
With 97.9% of Piedmont 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 94 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Piedmont. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Piedmont, see the exposure-zones guide.