Rosalia, KS
How exposed is Rosalia to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rosalia at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 152 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Rosalia's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 91st percentile nationally.
Rosalia's building exposure, zone by zone
152 buildings are counted in Rosalia, and 62.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Rosalia compares
There's little gap between Rosalia's 94th national percentile and its 95th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rosalia ranks 1,951 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,804 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 38 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rosalia
Rosalia's 94th-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.
Hardening a home in Rosalia
Rosalia's 62.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 152 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rosalia. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Rosalia, see the exposure-zones guide.