Denton, MO
Denton wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Denton at the 3rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 57 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 Denton at the 4th percentile, close to its 3rd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Denton rates 63.2% Minimal exposure against just 36.8% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 57 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Denton compares
Denton scores 3rd nationally and 4th within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Denton ranks 30,521 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,745 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,024 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
At the 3rd national percentile, Denton rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 63.2% of Denton outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 57 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Denton. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Denton, see the exposure-zones guide.