Crestwood, MO
Crestwood, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Crestwood's 5,573 buildings earn a 42nd-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 Crestwood at the 45th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Crestwood's buildings (97.5% of 5,573) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure. At 5,573 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Crestwood against the rest of the country
Crestwood ranks lower within Missouri (16th percentile statewide) than its 42nd national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crestwood ranks 18,407 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,091 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 888 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Crestwood
Crestwood's elevated rating (42nd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Crestwood's 97.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Crestwood's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crestwood, see the exposure-zones guide.