Woodruff, KS
Woodruff, KS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Woodruff at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 31 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Woodruff at the 50th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 48.4% of Woodruff's 31 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 29% Direct and 22.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Where Woodruff ranks
Inside Kansas, Woodruff sits at just the 35th percentile even though it scores 52nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Woodruff ranks 15,220 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,343 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 467 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
At the 52nd national percentile, Woodruff rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Woodruff's 48.4% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Woodruff's 52nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Woodruff, see the exposure-zones guide.