Raytown, MO
Raytown wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Raytown lands at the 41st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 12,859 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Raytown at the 43rd national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Raytown's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 20.2% of Raytown's 12,859 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 79.8% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 12,859 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Raytown compares
Raytown's 41st national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th 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, Raytown ranks 18,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,185 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 893 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Raytown and the insurance market
At the 41st national percentile, Raytown rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Raytown
With 79.8% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Raytown 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 12,859 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Raytown. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Raytown, see the exposure-zones guide.