Maysville, MO
How exposed is Maysville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Maysville lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 607 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Maysville at the 65th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Maysville's buildings actually sit
Most of Maysville's buildings (53.9%) 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.
Where Maysville ranks
There's little gap between Maysville's 64th national percentile and its 67th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Maysville ranks 11,314 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,734 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 353 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Maysville and the insurance market
Maysville's 64th-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.
Hardening a home in Maysville
Maysville's 53.9% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Maysville's 64th-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 Maysville, see the exposure-zones guide.