South Hutchinson, KS
How exposed is South Hutchinson to wildfire?
USFS scores South Hutchinson at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,582 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts South Hutchinson at the 57th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.8% of South Hutchinson's 1,582 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 8.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
South Hutchinson against the rest of the country
South Hutchinson scores 63rd nationally and 57th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Hutchinson ranks 11,567 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 308 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in South Hutchinson
South Hutchinson's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
South Hutchinson's 77.8% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,582 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for South Hutchinson. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond South Hutchinson, see the exposure-zones guide.