Dadeville, MO
How exposed is Dadeville to wildfire?
Dadeville sits at the 71st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 198 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Dadeville at the 73rd percentile, close to its 71st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.8% of Dadeville's 198 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 154 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 22.2% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Dadeville compares
There's little gap between Dadeville's 71st national percentile and its 84th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dadeville ranks 9,172 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,926 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 176 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
Dadeville's 71st-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 Dadeville
Dadeville's 77.8% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Dadeville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 198 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Dadeville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Dadeville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.