Sharon, KS
How exposed is Sharon to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sharon lands at the 86th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a figure built from its 180 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 Sharon at the 85th percentile, close to its 86th-percentile risk score.
Sharon's building exposure, zone by zone
180 buildings are counted in Sharon, and 81.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 18.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Sharon compares
Sharon's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (86th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (86th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sharon ranks 4,375 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,624 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 100 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Sharon and the insurance market
At the 86th percentile nationally, Sharon carries the very high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 81.7% of Sharon's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 180 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Sharon. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sharon, see the exposure-zones guide.