Marionville, MO
How exposed is Marionville to wildfire?
Marionville sits at the 68th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 1,193 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Marionville at the 69th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Marionville's building exposure, zone by zone
Marionville rates 61.4% Minimal exposure against just 26.5% Direct and 12.1% Indirect — of 1,193 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Marionville ranks
Marionville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (77th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (68th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Marionville ranks 10,175 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,690 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 248 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Marionville and the insurance market
Marionville's 68th-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 61.4% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Marionville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Marionville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Marionville's 10,175-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Marionville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.