Timken, KS
Timken wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Timken at the 51st national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 80 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Timken's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 49th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
70% of Timken's 80 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 56 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 30% are Minimal.
Timken against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Timken sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Timken ranks 15,345 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,880 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 474 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Timken and the insurance market
Timken's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Timken's 70% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Timken's 15,345-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Timken, see the exposure-zones guide.