Homestown, MO
Homestown, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Homestown at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 76 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Homestown at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 23.7% of Homestown's 76 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 76.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Homestown ranks
There's little gap between Homestown's 1st national percentile and its 1st percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Homestown ranks 31,275 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,052 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,053 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 1st national percentile, Homestown rates low 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 Homestown
Homestown's 76.3% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 76 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Homestown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Homestown, see the exposure-zones guide.