Westmoreland, KS
Westmoreland wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Westmoreland at the 93rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 454 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Westmoreland at the 91st national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Westmoreland's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 75.8% of Westmoreland's 454 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 24.2% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Westmoreland against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Westmoreland's 93rd national percentile and its 94th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westmoreland ranks 2,078 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,187 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 42 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Westmoreland
Westmoreland's 93rd-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.
Hardening a home in Westmoreland
Because 75.8% of Westmoreland'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
Westmoreland's 93rd-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 Westmoreland, see the exposure-zones guide.