Avilla, MO
How exposed is Avilla to wildfire?
USFS scores Avilla at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 120 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 Avilla at the 63rd percentile, close to its 61st-percentile risk score.
Avilla's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Avilla's 120 counted buildings, 55% carry Direct exposure and only 45% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Avilla ranks
Avilla's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Avilla ranks 12,167 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,150 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 426 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
Avilla'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
With 55% of Avilla in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Avilla's 12,167-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Avilla, see the exposure-zones guide.