Radium, KS
How exposed is Radium to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Radium at the 13th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 36 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 Radium at the 9th percentile, close to its 13th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 13.9% of Radium's 36 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 86.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Radium ranks
Radium's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (13th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Radium ranks 27,540 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,253 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 717 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
Radium's low wildfire rating (13th 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.
Hardening a home in Radium
With 86.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Radium gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Radium's 13th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Radium, see the exposure-zones guide.