Green City, MO
Green City wildfire risk explained
Green City's 493 buildings earn a 70th-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Green City at the 71st percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Where Green City's buildings actually sit
Most of Green City's buildings (59%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Green City against the rest of the country
Green City's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (82nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Green City ranks 9,524 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,474 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 193 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Green City and the insurance market
At the 70th percentile nationally, Green City 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Green City (59% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Green City's 70th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Green City, see the exposure-zones guide.