Quitman, MO
Quitman wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Quitman at the 38th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 49 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Quitman at the 38th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Quitman's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Quitman's 49 counted buildings, 63.3% carry Direct exposure and only 36.7% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Quitman compares
Quitman's 38th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 13th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Quitman ranks 19,509 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,958 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 929 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Quitman
Quitman's moderate rating (38th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 63.3% of Quitman in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Quitman's 19,509-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Quitman, see the exposure-zones guide.