Raymond, KS
How exposed is Raymond to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Raymond at the 90th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 110 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 Raymond at the 88th percentile, close to its 90th-percentile risk score.
Raymond's building exposure, zone by zone
110 buildings are counted in Raymond, and 62.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 32.7% in Direct exposure or the 4.6% rated Minimal.
Raymond against the rest of the country
Raymond's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (91st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (90th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Raymond ranks 3,052 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,621 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 65 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Raymond
Raymond's 90th-percentile, very 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 62.7% of Raymond'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.
Where Raymond's figures come from
Raymond's 90th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Raymond's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.