Blue Springs, MO
Blue Springs wildfire risk explained
Blue Springs's 19,824 buildings earn a 46th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Blue Springs at the 47th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Blue Springs's buildings actually sit
Blue Springs rates 85.9% Minimal exposure against just 14.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 19,824 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 19,824 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Blue Springs compares
Blue Springs's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Springs ranks 17,084 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 714 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 796 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Blue Springs
At the 46th national percentile, Blue Springs rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 85.9% of Blue Springs outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Springs's 17,084-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Blue Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.