Winchester, KS
Winchester, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Winchester lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 309 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Winchester at the 65th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Winchester's buildings (74.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Winchester compares
There's little gap between Winchester's 65th national percentile and its 60th percentile inside Kansas, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winchester ranks 10,901 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,394 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 289 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Winchester
Winchester's 65th-percentile, 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 74.4% of Winchester'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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Winchester's 10,901-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Winchester, see the exposure-zones guide.