Solomon, KS
How exposed is Solomon to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Solomon at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 703 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 Solomon at the 33rd percentile, close to its 38th-percentile risk score.
Where Solomon's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 93% of Solomon's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Solomon against the rest of the country
Solomon's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Solomon ranks 19,505 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 616 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Solomon
At the 38th national percentile, Solomon rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Solomon
With 93% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Solomon gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Solomon's 38th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Solomon, see the exposure-zones guide.