New Haven, MO
How exposed is New Haven to wildfire?
New Haven sits at the 52nd 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 1,035 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 New Haven at the 54th percentile, close to its 52nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 55.3% of New Haven's 1,035 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 42.6% Direct and 2.1% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How New Haven compares
There's little gap between New Haven's 52nd national percentile and its 37th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, New Haven ranks 15,035 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,692 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 665 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
New Haven and the insurance market
New Haven's elevated rating (52nd 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 New Haven
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in New Haven (55.3% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
Where New Haven's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind New Haven's 15,035-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what New Haven's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.