Vining, KS
Vining, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Vining at the 25th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 62 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vining at the 21st national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Vining's buildings actually sit
Vining rates 80.7% Minimal exposure against just 19.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 62 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Vining against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Vining sits at just the 6th percentile even though it scores 25th 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, Vining ranks 23,566 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,574 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 680 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Vining's moderate rating (25th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 80.7% of Vining outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Vining's 25th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vining, see the exposure-zones guide.