Kahoka, MO
Kahoka wildfire risk explained
Kahoka sits at the 51st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,331 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kahoka at the 53rd percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
Kahoka's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 48.2% of Kahoka's 1,331 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 13.2% Direct and 38.6% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Kahoka compares
Kahoka's 51st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kahoka ranks 15,414 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,925 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 699 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kahoka
Kahoka's elevated rating (51st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Kahoka
Because 48.2% of Kahoka'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.
Where Kahoka's figures come from
Kahoka's 51st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kahoka's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.