Shakertowne, MO
How exposed is Shakertowne to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Shakertowne at the 35th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 354 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shakertowne at the 37th percentile, close to its 35th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Shakertowne's 354 counted buildings, 55.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Shakertowne compares
Shakertowne ranks lower within Missouri (11th percentile statewide) than its 35th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shakertowne ranks 20,357 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,216 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 942 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shakertowne
Shakertowne's moderate wildfire rating (35th 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 Shakertowne
Because Direct exposure dominates in Shakertowne (55.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Shakertowne's 35th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Shakertowne, see the exposure-zones guide.