Kirksville, MO
How exposed is Kirksville to wildfire?
USFS scores Kirksville at the 63rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 7,211 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kirksville at the 65th percentile, close to its 63rd-percentile risk score.
Kirksville's building exposure, zone by zone
7,211 buildings are counted in Kirksville, and 49.5% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 16.7% in Direct exposure or the 33.8% rated Minimal. At 7,211 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Kirksville compares
There's little gap between Kirksville's 63rd national percentile and its 63rd percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kirksville ranks 11,667 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,378 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 389 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Kirksville
Kirksville's high rating (63rd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Kirksville
Because 49.5% of Kirksville'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 Kirksville's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,211 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Kirksville. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kirksville's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.