Stockton, KS
Stockton, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Stockton at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,147 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Stockton's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 64th percentile nationally.
Stockton's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 97.3% of Stockton's 1,147 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 2.4% Direct and 0.4% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Stockton ranks
Stockton's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (62nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Stockton ranks 10,590 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,976 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 280 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Stockton
Stockton's 66th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Stockton's 97.3% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,147 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Stockton. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Stockton, see the exposure-zones guide.