Seward, KS
How exposed is Seward to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Seward at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 69 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 Seward at the 54th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where Seward's buildings actually sit
Only 31.9% of Seward's 69 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Seward ranks
There's little gap between Seward's 59th national percentile and its 51st percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Seward ranks 12,951 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 355 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Seward and the insurance market
Seward's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Seward
Seward's 68.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Seward's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Seward's 12,951-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Seward's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.