Tescott, KS
Tescott wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tescott lands at the 61st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 250 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tescott at the 57th national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Tescott's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 58% of Tescott's 250 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.2% Direct and 22.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Tescott compares
Tescott's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (54th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tescott ranks 12,230 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,140 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 330 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tescott
Tescott's 61st-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 58% of Tescott'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Tescott's 12,230-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Tescott, see the exposure-zones guide.