Rushville, MO
How exposed is Rushville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Rushville at the 68th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 202 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Rushville at the 68th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Rushville's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Rushville's buildings (58.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Rushville compares
Rushville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (76th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (68th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Rushville ranks 10,178 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,770 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 251 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Rushville and the insurance market
Rushville's high rating (68th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Rushville (58.4% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Rushville's 68th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Rushville, see the exposure-zones guide.