Pittsburg, KS
Pittsburg wildfire risk explained
Pittsburg's 9,884 buildings earn a 55th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pittsburg at the 57th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Pittsburg's buildings (69.4% of 9,884) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 9,884 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Pittsburg ranks
Pittsburg scores 55th nationally and 43rd within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pittsburg ranks 14,083 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,640 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 413 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pittsburg
Pittsburg's elevated wildfire rating (55th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Pittsburg
Even with 69.4% of Pittsburg outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Pittsburg's 55th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Pittsburg, see the exposure-zones guide.