Wilroads Gardens, KS
How exposed is Wilroads Gardens to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Wilroads Gardens at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 460 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Wilroads Gardens's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 47th percentile nationally.
Wilroads Gardens's building exposure, zone by zone
95% of Wilroads Gardens's 460 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 437 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 5% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Wilroads Gardens against the rest of the country
Wilroads Gardens's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 31st ranking inside Kansas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wilroads Gardens ranks 15,847 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,056 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 495 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Wilroads Gardens and the insurance market
Wilroads Gardens's elevated wildfire rating (50th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Wilroads Gardens
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wilroads Gardens (95%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wilroads Gardens's figures come from
Wilroads Gardens's 50th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wilroads Gardens's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.