Foster, MO
Foster wildfire risk explained
Foster's 114 buildings earn a 67th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Foster's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 68th percentile nationally.
Where Foster's buildings actually sit
Of Foster's 114 counted buildings, 91.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Foster against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Foster's 67th national percentile and its 75th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Foster ranks 10,307 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,458 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 267 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Foster
At the 67th percentile nationally, Foster carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Hardening a home in Foster
Because Direct exposure dominates in Foster (91.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Foster's 10,307-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Foster, see the exposure-zones guide.