Prairie Village, KS
Prairie Village, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Prairie Village at the 27th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 9,587 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (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 Village at the 31st percentile, close to its 27th-percentile risk score.
Where Prairie Village's buildings actually sit
Only 32.3% of Prairie Village's 9,587 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 67.7% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,587 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Prairie Village against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Prairie Village sits at just the 8th percentile even though it scores 27th 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 Village ranks 22,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,699 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 667 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 27th national percentile, Prairie Village rates moderate 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
Even with 67.7% of Prairie Village 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.
Where Prairie Village's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 9,587 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Prairie Village. The exposure-zones guide covers what Prairie Village's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.