Blackburn, MO
Blackburn wildfire risk explained
Blackburn's 180 buildings earn a 11th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blackburn at the 10th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blackburn's buildings actually sit
67.2% of Blackburn's 180 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 32.8% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Blackburn compares
Blackburn's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (11th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blackburn ranks 28,209 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,630 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,003 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blackburn
At the 11th national percentile, Blackburn 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 Blackburn
Blackburn's 67.2% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 180 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blackburn. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blackburn, see the exposure-zones guide.