Glasgow, MO
Glasgow, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Glasgow at the 46th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 642 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 Glasgow at the 47th percentile, close to its 46th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Glasgow rates 77.1% Minimal exposure against just 22.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 642 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Glasgow compares
Glasgow's 46th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 25th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 21 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glasgow ranks 17,019 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,296 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 794 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glasgow
Glasgow's elevated wildfire rating (46th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Glasgow's 77.1% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Glasgow's 17,019-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glasgow, see the exposure-zones guide.