Mehlville, MO
Mehlville, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Mehlville at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 9,416 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mehlville at the 41st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mehlville's buildings actually sit
Only 2% of Mehlville's 9,416 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 98% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 9,416 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Mehlville ranks
Mehlville's 39th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 14th 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, Mehlville ranks 19,283 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,734 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 919 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Mehlville and the insurance market
At the 39th national percentile, Mehlville rates moderate for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Mehlville
Mehlville's 98% 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.
Where Mehlville's figures come from
Mehlville's 39th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mehlville's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.