Cameron, MO
How exposed is Cameron to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Cameron at the 65th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 3,287 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Cameron's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 66th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Cameron rates 75.5% Minimal exposure against just 11.7% Direct and 12.8% Indirect — of 3,287 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Cameron compares
There's little gap between Cameron's 65th national percentile and its 68th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cameron ranks 11,190 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,068 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 343 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cameron
Cameron's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 75.5% of Cameron 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 Cameron's 11,190-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Cameron, see the exposure-zones guide.