Sedgewickville, MO
How exposed is Sedgewickville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Sedgewickville lands at the 57th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 131 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Sedgewickville at the 60th percentile, close to its 57th-percentile risk score.
Sedgewickville's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Sedgewickville: 95.4% of its 131 buildings, versus 4.6% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Sedgewickville against the rest of the country
Sedgewickville scores 57th nationally and 48th 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, Sedgewickville ranks 13,495 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,674 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 555 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Sedgewickville and the insurance market
At the 57th national percentile, Sedgewickville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Sedgewickville's 95.4% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sedgewickville's 13,495-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Sedgewickville, see the exposure-zones guide.