Powhattan, KS
Powhattan, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Powhattan at the 56th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 100 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Powhattan at the 56th percentile, close to its 56th-percentile risk score.
Powhattan's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 78% of Powhattan's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 22% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Powhattan ranks
Powhattan's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (44th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (56th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Powhattan ranks 13,864 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,029 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 403 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Powhattan
At the 56th national percentile, Powhattan rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 78% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Powhattan gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Powhattan's 13,864-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Powhattan, see the exposure-zones guide.