Whiting, KS
Whiting, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Whiting at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 202 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Whiting at the 76th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Whiting's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Whiting's 202 counted buildings, 60.9% carry Direct exposure and only 39.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Whiting against the rest of the country
Whiting scores 75th nationally and 73rd 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, Whiting ranks 7,816 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,763 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 200 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Whiting
Whiting's high rating (75th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Whiting's 60.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Whiting's 75th-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 Whiting, see the exposure-zones guide.