Brewer, MO
Brewer, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Brewer's 299 buildings earn a 27th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Brewer at the 28th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Brewer: 59.2% of its 299 buildings, versus 2% Indirect and 38.8% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Brewer ranks
Brewer's 27th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 9th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 19 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Brewer ranks 22,940 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,654 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 971 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Brewer and the insurance market
Brewer's moderate wildfire rating (27th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Brewer (59.2%), 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
Brewer's 27th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Brewer, see the exposure-zones guide.