Sedalia, MO
Sedalia, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sedalia sits at the 58th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 10,600 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sedalia at the 59th percentile, close to its 58th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
77.3% of Sedalia's 10,600 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 5.5% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 10,600 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Sedalia compares
Sedalia's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (49th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (58th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sedalia ranks 13,366 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,508 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 543 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Sedalia and the insurance market
Sedalia's elevated wildfire rating (58th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Sedalia
With 77.3% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Sedalia gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Sedalia's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sedalia's 13,366-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Sedalia's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.