Jerico Springs, MO
Jerico Springs, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Jerico Springs at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 202 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Jerico Springs at the 73rd percentile, close to its 72nd-percentile risk score.
Where Jerico Springs's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 73.3% of Jerico Springs's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 26.7% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 148 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Jerico Springs against the rest of the country
Jerico Springs scores 72nd nationally and 86th 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, Jerico Springs ranks 8,827 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,768 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 156 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Jerico Springs and the insurance market
Jerico Springs's 72nd-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Jerico Springs (73.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 202 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Jerico Springs. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Jerico Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.