Quenemo, KS
Quenemo, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Quenemo's 252 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Quenemo's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
Where Quenemo's buildings actually sit
56% of Quenemo's 252 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 44.1% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Quenemo ranks
There's little gap between Quenemo's 70th national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quenemo ranks 9,327 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,074 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 233 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
Quenemo's 70th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 56% of Quenemo's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 252 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Quenemo. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Quenemo, see the exposure-zones guide.