Fair Grove, MO
How exposed is Fair Grove to wildfire?
USFS scores Fair Grove at the 75th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 813 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Fair Grove's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 77th percentile nationally.
Where Fair Grove's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Fair Grove: 67.3% of its 813 buildings, versus 21.5% Indirect and 11.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Fair Grove against the rest of the country
Fair Grove's 91st-percentile standing inside Missouri outpaces its 75th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Fair Grove ranks 7,916 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,524 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 95 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Fair Grove
Fair Grove's 75th-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 Fair Grove
With 67.3% of Fair Grove in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Fair Grove's 75th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Fair Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.