St. Marks, KS
How exposed is St. Marks to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts St. Marks at the 33rd national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 92 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks St. Marks at the 28th national percentile — 6 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in St. Marks: 63% of its 92 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 37% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where St. Marks ranks
St. Marks's 33rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 11th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 22 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, St. Marks ranks 21,020 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,401 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 639 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
St. Marks and the insurance market
St. Marks's moderate wildfire rating (33rd 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.
Hardening a home in St. Marks
With 63% of St. Marks in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where St. Marks's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 92 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for St. Marks. The exposure-zones guide covers what St. Marks's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.