Missouri City, TX
How exposed is Missouri City to wildfire?
Missouri City's 28,715 buildings earn a 70th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Missouri City at the 74th percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Missouri City's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 83.3% of Missouri City's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 5.5% Direct and 11.2% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 28,715 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Missouri City against the rest of the country
Missouri City's 70th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 32nd ranking inside Texas does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 38 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Missouri City ranks 9,340 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 413 by building count (1 is largest). Within Texas alone, it ranks 1,221 of 1,795 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Texas on its state page.
Missouri City and the insurance market
Missouri City's high rating (70th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Missouri City's 83.3% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Missouri City's 9,340-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Missouri City, see the exposure-zones guide.