Dardenne Prairie, MO
Dardenne Prairie wildfire risk explained
Dardenne Prairie's 4,234 buildings earn a 49th-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.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Dardenne Prairie at the 52nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 74% of Dardenne Prairie's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 9.9% Direct and 16.1% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Dardenne Prairie compares
Dardenne Prairie ranks lower within Missouri (31st percentile statewide) than its 49th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Dardenne Prairie ranks 16,069 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 4,031 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 732 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Dardenne Prairie and the insurance market
At the 49th national percentile, Dardenne Prairie rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Dardenne Prairie
Dardenne Prairie's 74% 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
Dardenne Prairie's 49th-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 Dardenne Prairie, see the exposure-zones guide.