Wabaunsee, KS
How exposed is Wabaunsee to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wabaunsee at the 88th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 95 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wabaunsee at the 86th national percentile — 2 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Wabaunsee's buildings actually sit
95 buildings are counted in Wabaunsee, and 64.2% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 6.3% rated Minimal.
Wabaunsee against the rest of the country
Wabaunsee's risk sits at a similar level relative to Kansas (88th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (88th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wabaunsee ranks 3,813 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,264 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 86 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
Wabaunsee's 88th-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wabaunsee (64.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wabaunsee's 3,813-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Wabaunsee, see the exposure-zones guide.