Crane, MO
Crane wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Crane at the 72nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 788 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crane at the 74th percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Crane's building exposure, zone by zone
788 buildings are counted in Crane, and 59% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 41% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Crane ranks
There's little gap between Crane's 72nd national percentile and its 85th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crane ranks 8,826 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 155 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crane
Crane's 72nd-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.
Hardening a home in Crane
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Crane (59% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 788 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crane. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crane, see the exposure-zones guide.