Wellsville, KS
How exposed is Wellsville to wildfire?
Wellsville's 997 buildings earn a 50th-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 Wellsville at the 50th percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
Where Wellsville's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 75.1% of Wellsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 24.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Wellsville ranks
Wellsville ranks lower within Kansas (33rd percentile statewide) than its 50th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wellsville ranks 15,692 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,955 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 487 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
Wellsville's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Wellsville's 75.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wellsville's 15,692-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wellsville, see the exposure-zones guide.