Hughesville, MO
How exposed is Hughesville to wildfire?
Hughesville sits at the 8th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 113 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Hughesville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 8th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
86.7% of Hughesville's 113 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 13.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Hughesville against the rest of the country
Hughesville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (8th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Hughesville ranks 29,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,507 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,008 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Hughesville
Hughesville's low wildfire rating (8th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Hughesville's 86.7% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Hughesville's 29,031-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Hughesville, see the exposure-zones guide.