Crystal City, MO
Crystal City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Crystal City lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,424 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crystal City at the 46th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
Where Crystal City's buildings actually sit
Most of Crystal City's buildings (48%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Crystal City compares
Inside Missouri, Crystal City sits at just the 24th percentile even though it scores 45th 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, Crystal City ranks 17,458 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,453 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 814 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Crystal City's elevated rating (45th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Crystal City
Because 48% of Crystal City's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,424 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crystal City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crystal City, see the exposure-zones guide.