Jacksonville, MO
How exposed is Jacksonville to wildfire?
Jacksonville's 103 buildings earn a 58th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Jacksonville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Where Jacksonville's buildings actually sit
Most of Jacksonville's buildings (62.1%) 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.
How Jacksonville compares
Jacksonville scores 58th nationally and 50th 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, Jacksonville ranks 13,179 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,906 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 527 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Jacksonville
Jacksonville's elevated rating (58th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.1% of Jacksonville's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Jacksonville's 13,179-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Jacksonville, see the exposure-zones guide.