Winona, KS
How exposed is Winona to wildfire?
Winona's 243 buildings earn a 24th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Winona's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 21st percentile nationally.
Winona's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 28.8% of Winona's 243 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 71.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Winona compares
Winona ranks lower within Kansas (5th percentile statewide) than its 24th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Winona ranks 23,945 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,360 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 686 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
Winona's moderate rating (24th 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
Winona's 71.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 243 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Winona. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Winona, see the exposure-zones guide.