Prairie View, KS
Prairie View wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Prairie View at the 52nd national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 143 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 Prairie View at the 50th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Prairie View's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Prairie View's buildings (88.1% of 143) 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.
Where Prairie View ranks
Inside Kansas, Prairie View sits at just the 37th percentile even though it scores 52nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Prairie View ranks 15,030 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,157 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 459 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Prairie View and the insurance market
Prairie View's elevated wildfire rating (52nd 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Prairie View's 88.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 143 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Prairie View. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Prairie View, see the exposure-zones guide.