Old Jamestown, MO
How exposed is Old Jamestown to wildfire?
Old Jamestown sits at the 43rd 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 7,907 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Old Jamestown at the 46th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Old Jamestown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 22% of Old Jamestown's 7,907 buildings carry Direct exposure and 22.9% carry Indirect; the remaining 55.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,907 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Old Jamestown compares
Old Jamestown's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Old Jamestown ranks 17,872 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,146 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 855 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
At the 43rd national percentile, Old Jamestown rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 55.1% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Old Jamestown gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Old Jamestown's 43rd-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Old Jamestown, see the exposure-zones guide.