Glen Echo Park, MO
Glen Echo Park wildfire risk explained
Glen Echo Park's 80 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Glen Echo Park's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 48th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 2.5% of Glen Echo Park's 80 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 97.5% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Glen Echo Park compares
Glen Echo Park ranks lower within Missouri (22nd percentile statewide) than its 44th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Glen Echo Park ranks 17,583 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 826 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Glen Echo Park
At the 44th national percentile, Glen Echo Park rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Glen Echo Park
Even with 97.5% of Glen Echo Park 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 80 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Glen Echo Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Glen Echo Park, see the exposure-zones guide.