Welda, KS
Welda, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Welda at the 85th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 136 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Welda at the 82nd national percentile — 4 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Welda's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Welda's 136 counted buildings, 55.9% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Welda compares
Welda scores 85th nationally and 85th within Kansas — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Welda ranks 4,700 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 109 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
Welda's very high rating (85th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Welda
Because Direct exposure dominates in Welda (55.9%), 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
Welda's 85th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Welda, see the exposure-zones guide.