Forest City, MO
Forest City wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Forest City lands at the 63rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 229 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Forest City at the 65th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Forest City's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Forest City: 64.2% of its 229 buildings, versus 35.8% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Forest City ranks
There's little gap between Forest City's 63rd national percentile and its 65th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest City ranks 11,538 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,823 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 377 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest City
Forest City's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Forest City's 64.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 229 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Forest City. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest City, see the exposure-zones guide.