Airport Drive, MO
Airport Drive wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Airport Drive lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 536 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Airport Drive at the 65th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Airport Drive's 536 counted buildings, 71.5% carry Direct exposure and only 2.8% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Airport Drive against the rest of the country
Airport Drive scores 63rd nationally and 65th within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Airport Drive ranks 11,536 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 16,782 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 375 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Airport Drive's 63rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Airport Drive (71.5%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Airport Drive's figures come from
Airport Drive's 63rd-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 Airport Drive's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.