Nixa, MO
Nixa wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Nixa lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 8,062 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Nixa at the 71st percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Nixa's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Nixa's buildings (56.6%) 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 8,062 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Nixa compares
Nixa scores 69th nationally and 79th within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Nixa ranks 9,803 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,085 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 221 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Nixa's 69th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 56.6% of Nixa'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.
Where Nixa's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Nixa's 9,803-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Nixa's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.