Princeton, KS
Princeton, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Princeton at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 191 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Princeton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
Princeton's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Princeton's 191 counted buildings, 55% carry Direct exposure and only 45% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Princeton compares
Princeton's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 37th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Princeton ranks 14,933 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,199 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 452 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Princeton and the insurance market
Princeton's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Princeton (55%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Princeton's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Princeton, see the exposure-zones guide.