Huntsdale, MO
Huntsdale, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Huntsdale at the 61st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 24 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Huntsdale at the 62nd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Huntsdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Huntsdale's 24 counted buildings, 79.2% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. This is a small settlement by building count — 24 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Huntsdale against the rest of the country
Huntsdale's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (57th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huntsdale ranks 12,451 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,427 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 456 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Huntsdale and the insurance market
Huntsdale's high rating (61st percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Huntsdale (79.2%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Huntsdale's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huntsdale's 12,451-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. Small places like Huntsdale (24 buildings) are exactly where USFS's underlying data gets sparsest — see the data-quality guide for the 517 places that didn't clear the bar.