Westwood Hills, KS
Westwood Hills wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Westwood Hills lands at the 29th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a figure built from its 199 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Westwood Hills at the 33rd percentile, close to its 29th-percentile risk score.
Where Westwood Hills's buildings actually sit
Westwood Hills rates 96% Minimal exposure against just 4% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 199 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Westwood Hills against the rest of the country
Inside Kansas, Westwood Hills sits at just the 9th percentile even though it scores 29th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Westwood Hills ranks 22,339 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 657 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
Westwood Hills's moderate rating (29th 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
Westwood Hills's 96% 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
Westwood Hills's 29th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Westwood Hills, see the exposure-zones guide.