Mexico, MO
Mexico wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mexico at the 52nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 6,044 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mexico at the 53rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Mexico's buildings (65.8%) 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. At 6,044 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Mexico ranks
Inside Missouri, Mexico sits at just the 36th percentile even though it scores 52nd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mexico ranks 15,286 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,862 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 684 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mexico
At the 52nd national percentile, Mexico rates elevated 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 Mexico
Because 65.8% of Mexico's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mexico's 15,286-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mexico, see the exposure-zones guide.