Syracuse, KS
Syracuse, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Syracuse at the 75th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,232 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Syracuse at the 72nd national percentile — 3 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
USFS puts 87.6% of Syracuse's 1,232 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 12.4% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Syracuse against the rest of the country
Syracuse scores 75th nationally and 72nd 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, Syracuse ranks 7,876 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,460 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 204 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Syracuse and the insurance market
Syracuse's high rating (75th 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
Because 87.6% of Syracuse's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Syracuse's 75th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Syracuse, see the exposure-zones guide.