Imperial, MO
Imperial wildfire risk explained
Imperial's 2,334 buildings earn a 40th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Imperial at the 41st percentile, close to its 40th-percentile risk score.
Imperial's building exposure, zone by zone
Indirect exposure is dominant in Imperial (65% of 2,334 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 34.8% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Imperial ranks
Inside Missouri, Imperial sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 40th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Imperial ranks 19,031 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,637 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 910 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Imperial
Imperial's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Imperial (65% 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 Imperial's 19,031-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Imperial, see the exposure-zones guide.