Savannah, MO
How exposed is Savannah to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Savannah lands at the 67th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 2,549 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Savannah's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 69th percentile nationally.
Savannah's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 26.2% of Savannah's 2,549 buildings carry Direct exposure and 16.7% carry Indirect; the remaining 57.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Savannah compares
Savannah's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (75th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (67th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Savannah ranks 10,274 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,203 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 265 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Savannah and the insurance market
Savannah's 67th-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.
Hardening a home in Savannah
Savannah's 57.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Savannah's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Savannah's 10,274-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Savannah's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.