Rolla, MO
How exposed is Rolla to wildfire?
Rolla's 7,231 buildings earn a 66th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rolla at the 68th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rolla's building exposure, zone by zone
57.7% of Rolla's 7,231 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 19.9% Direct and 22.3% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone. At 7,231 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Rolla ranks
Rolla scores 66th nationally and 72nd 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, Rolla ranks 10,752 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,369 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 302 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Rolla
Rolla's high rating (66th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 57.7% of Rolla'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 Rolla's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,231 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Rolla. The exposure-zones guide covers what Rolla's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.