Maryland Heights, MO
Maryland Heights wildfire risk explained
Maryland Heights sits at the 42nd 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 9,789 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 Maryland Heights at the 45th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Maryland Heights's building exposure, zone by zone
Maryland Heights rates 92.2% Minimal exposure against just 5.8% Direct and 2% Indirect — of 9,789 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually. At 9,789 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Maryland Heights compares
Maryland Heights's 42nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 18th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maryland Heights ranks 18,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,666 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 877 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Maryland Heights
Maryland Heights's elevated rating (42nd 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 Maryland Heights
Maryland Heights's 92.2% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Maryland Heights's 42nd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Maryland Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.