Plevna, KS
How exposed is Plevna to wildfire?
Plevna sits at the 98th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 99 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 Plevna at the 97th percentile, close to its 98th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 33.3% of Plevna's 99 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 66.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Plevna ranks
There's little gap between Plevna's 98th national percentile and its 100th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Plevna ranks 540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,081 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 4 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Plevna
At the 98th percentile nationally, Plevna 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 Plevna
With 66.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Plevna gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Plevna's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Plevna's 540-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Plevna's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.