Kissee Mills, MO
Kissee Mills wildfire risk explained
Kissee Mills's 748 buildings earn a 77th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Kissee Mills at the 80th percentile, close to its 77th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.6% of Kissee Mills's 748 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 745 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0.4% are Minimal.
Where Kissee Mills ranks
Kissee Mills's 94th-percentile standing inside Missouri outpaces its 77th national percentile — this is a hotter spot than most of its own state, even though the state as a whole runs cooler nationally. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Kissee Mills ranks 7,250 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,141 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 71 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Kissee Mills's 77th-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
With 99.6% of Kissee Mills in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Kissee Mills's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Kissee Mills's 7,250-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Kissee Mills's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.