Higbee, MO
How exposed is Higbee to wildfire?
Higbee's 376 buildings earn a 65th-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 Higbee at the 66th percentile, close to its 65th-percentile risk score.
Where Higbee's buildings actually sit
Most of Higbee's buildings (61.2%) 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.
Higbee against the rest of the country
Higbee scores 65th nationally and 71st within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Higbee ranks 10,905 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,740 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 314 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Higbee
Higbee's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
Hardening a home in Higbee
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Higbee (61.2% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Higbee's 10,905-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Higbee, see the exposure-zones guide.