Haywood City, MO
How exposed is Haywood City to wildfire?
USFS scores Haywood City at the 6th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 97 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Haywood City at the 6th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Haywood City's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Haywood City: 46.4% of its 97 buildings, versus 24.7% Indirect and 28.9% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Where Haywood City ranks
There's little gap between Haywood City's 6th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Haywood City ranks 29,636 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,181 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,015 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Haywood City
At the 6th national percentile, Haywood City rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Haywood City's 46.4% 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.
Where Haywood City's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 97 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Haywood City. The exposure-zones guide covers what Haywood City's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.