Riley, KS
Riley, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Riley lands at the 88th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 584 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 Riley at the 84th percentile, close to its 88th-percentile risk score.
Where Riley's buildings actually sit
Most of Riley's buildings (89.7%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Riley compares
Riley scores 88th nationally and 89th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riley ranks 3,686 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,047 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 83 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Riley and the insurance market
Riley's very high rating (88th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Riley
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Riley (89.7% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Riley's 3,686-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Riley, see the exposure-zones guide.