WaKeeney, KS
WaKeeney, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
WaKeeney's 1,607 buildings earn a 53rd-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts WaKeeney at the 51st percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
WaKeeney's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in WaKeeney (92.8% of 1,607 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 6.2% sit in the Direct zone.
How WaKeeney compares
WaKeeney's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 38th ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 15 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, WaKeeney ranks 14,841 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,741 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 451 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in WaKeeney
WaKeeney's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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 92.8% of WaKeeney'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
WaKeeney's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond WaKeeney, see the exposure-zones guide.