Arkoe, MO
Arkoe wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Arkoe at the 50th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 54 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Arkoe's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
Arkoe's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Arkoe: 63% of its 54 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 37% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Arkoe compares
Inside Missouri, Arkoe sits at just the 33rd percentile even though it scores 50th 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, Arkoe ranks 15,815 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,818 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 717 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Arkoe
At the 50th national percentile, Arkoe 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
Arkoe's 63% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arkoe's 15,815-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Arkoe, see the exposure-zones guide.