Carytown, MO
Carytown wildfire risk explained
Carytown's 290 buildings earn a 58th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Carytown at the 59th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Carytown's 290 counted buildings, 89.3% carry Direct exposure and only 3.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Carytown compares
Carytown's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (58th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Carytown ranks 13,363 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,913 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 540 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Carytown and the insurance market
Carytown's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Carytown (89.3%), 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
Carytown's 58th-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 Carytown, see the exposure-zones guide.