Benton City, MO
How exposed is Benton City to wildfire?
Benton City sits at the 7th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 107 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Benton City at the 7th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Benton City's building exposure, zone by zone
Benton City rates 81.3% Minimal exposure against just 18.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 107 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Benton City ranks
Benton City scores 7th nationally and 5th 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, Benton City ranks 29,288 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,737 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,009 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Benton City and the insurance market
At the 7th national percentile, Benton City rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Benton City
With 81.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Benton City gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Benton City's 29,288-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Benton City, see the exposure-zones guide.