Kingsville, MO
Kingsville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Kingsville at the 53rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 180 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Kingsville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 53rd percentile nationally.
Kingsville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Kingsville's buildings (70%) 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 Kingsville compares
There's little gap between Kingsville's 53rd national percentile and its 39th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kingsville ranks 14,878 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,632 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 653 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kingsville
Kingsville's elevated rating (53rd 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 70% of Kingsville'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
Kingsville's 53rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Kingsville, see the exposure-zones guide.