Roeland Park, KS
Roeland Park, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Roeland Park at the 29th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 3,115 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Roeland Park at the 32nd percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Roeland Park's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 90.6% of Roeland Park's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Roeland Park compares
Inside Kansas, Roeland Park sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 29th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Roeland Park ranks 22,496 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 661 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Roeland Park
Roeland Park's moderate wildfire rating (29th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With 90.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Roeland Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Roeland Park's figures come from
Roeland Park's 29th-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 Roeland Park's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.