Woodston, KS
Woodston wildfire risk explained
Woodston's 153 buildings earn a 61st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Woodston at the 58th national percentile — 3 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Woodston's buildings actually sit
153 buildings are counted in Woodston, and 96.7% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 3.3% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Woodston compares
Woodston scores 61st nationally and 53rd 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, Woodston ranks 12,415 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,747 by building count (1 is largest). Within Kansas alone, it ranks 338 of 721 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Kansas on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Woodston
Woodston's 61st-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 96.7% of Woodston'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.
Where Woodston's figures come from
Woodston's 61st-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 Woodston's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.