Tyro, KS
Tyro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Tyro at the 80th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 184 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Tyro at the 81st percentile, close to its 80th-percentile risk score.
Where Tyro's buildings actually sit
184 buildings are counted in Tyro, and 65.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Tyro against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tyro's 80th national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tyro ranks 6,368 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,461 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 157 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tyro
At the 80th percentile nationally, Tyro carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Tyro
Tyro's 65.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 184 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Tyro. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Tyro, see the exposure-zones guide.