Pretty Prairie, KS
How exposed is Pretty Prairie to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pretty Prairie at the 29th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 468 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pretty Prairie at the 22nd national percentile — 7 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pretty Prairie's buildings actually sit
Only 7.1% of Pretty Prairie's 468 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 93% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Pretty Prairie ranks
Inside Kansas, Pretty Prairie sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 29th 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, Pretty Prairie ranks 22,465 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,919 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 659 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
Pretty Prairie's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 93% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Pretty Prairie gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Pretty Prairie's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pretty Prairie's 22,465-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pretty Prairie's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.