Simpson, KS
How exposed is Simpson to wildfire?
Simpson's 106 buildings earn a 31st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Simpson at the 27th percentile, close to its 31st-percentile risk score.
Where Simpson's buildings actually sit
91.5% of Simpson's 106 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Simpson compares
Inside Kansas, Simpson sits at just the 10th percentile even though it scores 31st 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, Simpson ranks 21,898 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,769 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 649 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Simpson and the insurance market
Simpson's moderate wildfire rating (31st 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
Simpson's 91.5% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Simpson's 21,898-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Simpson, see the exposure-zones guide.