Ash Grove, MO
Ash Grove wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ash Grove at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 848 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ash Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 71st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Ash Grove rates 44.6% Minimal exposure against just 33.6% Direct and 21.8% Indirect — of 848 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Ash Grove ranks
Ash Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (80th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ash Grove ranks 9,772 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,179 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 215 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
At the 69th percentile nationally, Ash Grove carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Ash Grove's 44.6% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ash Grove's 9,772-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Ash Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.