Clark, MO
How exposed is Clark to wildfire?
USFS scores Clark at the 51st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 163 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Clark's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
70.6% of Clark's 163 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 29.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Clark ranks
Inside Missouri, Clark sits at just the 34th percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clark ranks 15,413 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 26,288 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 698 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Clark
Clark's elevated wildfire rating (51st 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
Even with 70.6% of Clark 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 Clark's 15,413-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clark, see the exposure-zones guide.