Winfield, KS
Winfield wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Winfield at the 85th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 6,047 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Winfield at the 80th percentile, close to its 85th-percentile risk score.
Winfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Winfield rates 86.4% Minimal exposure against just 13.6% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 6,047 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 6,047 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Winfield ranks
Winfield scores 85th nationally and 86th 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, Winfield ranks 4,599 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,861 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 105 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Winfield and the insurance market
Winfield's very high rating (85th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 86.4% of Winfield outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Winfield's 85th-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 Winfield, see the exposure-zones guide.