Utica, KS
Utica, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Utica lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 212 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Utica at the 42nd 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
212 buildings are counted in Utica, and 94.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 5.7% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Utica ranks
Inside Kansas, Utica sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 45th 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, Utica ranks 17,202 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,396 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 562 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Utica
Utica's elevated wildfire rating (45th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 94.3% of Utica'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 Utica's 17,202-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Utica, see the exposure-zones guide.