Blodgett, MO
Blodgett wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blodgett at the 6th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 132 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blodgett at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
79.6% of Blodgett's 132 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
How Blodgett compares
There's little gap between Blodgett's 6th national percentile and its 5th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blodgett ranks 29,600 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,625 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,014 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blodgett
At the 6th national percentile, Blodgett rates low 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
With 79.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Blodgett 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 132 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blodgett. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blodgett, see the exposure-zones guide.