Richmond, KS
Richmond, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Richmond lands at the 52nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 302 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Richmond at the 53rd percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
Richmond's building exposure, zone by zone
Richmond rates 79.8% Minimal exposure against just 17.9% Direct and 2.3% Indirect — of 302 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Richmond against the rest of the country
Richmond's 52nd 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, Richmond ranks 14,997 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,573 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 455 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
Richmond's elevated rating (52nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 79.8% of Richmond outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Richmond's 14,997-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Richmond, see the exposure-zones guide.