Ravenwood, MO
Ravenwood wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ravenwood at the 60th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 290 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ravenwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 61st percentile nationally.
Ravenwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Ravenwood rates 85.9% Minimal exposure against just 14.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 290 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Ravenwood compares
Ravenwood's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (56th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (60th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ravenwood ranks 12,516 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,914 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 464 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Ravenwood
Ravenwood's 60th-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
Even with 85.9% of Ravenwood outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Ravenwood's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Ravenwood's 12,516-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Ravenwood's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.