Coney Island, MO
Coney Island, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Coney Island at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 122 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Coney Island at the 67th percentile, close to its 66th-percentile risk score.
Coney Island's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 67.2% of Coney Island's 122 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 32% Direct and 0.8% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Coney Island against the rest of the country
Coney Island's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (73rd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (66th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Coney Island ranks 10,653 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,070 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 293 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Coney Island and the insurance market
At the 66th percentile nationally, Coney Island carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Coney Island's 67.2% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Coney Island's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 122 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Coney Island. The exposure-zones guide covers what Coney Island's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.