Blue Eye, MO
How exposed is Blue Eye to wildfire?
Blue Eye's 139 buildings earn a 76th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Eye at the 78th percentile, close to its 76th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Blue Eye: 84.2% of its 139 buildings, versus 15.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Blue Eye compares
Blue Eye's 92nd-percentile standing inside Missouri outpaces its 76th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Eye ranks 7,631 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,332 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 86 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Blue Eye and the insurance market
Blue Eye's high rating (76th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Blue Eye (84.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 139 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Blue Eye. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Blue Eye, see the exposure-zones guide.