Shrewsbury, MO
How exposed is Shrewsbury to wildfire?
USFS scores Shrewsbury at the 39th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 2,166 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Shrewsbury at the 43rd percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Where Shrewsbury's buildings actually sit
Only 0.8% of Shrewsbury's 2,166 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99.2% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Shrewsbury compares
Inside Missouri, Shrewsbury sits at just the 14th percentile even though it scores 39th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Shrewsbury ranks 19,256 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,027 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 918 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury's moderate rating (39th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 99.2% of Shrewsbury outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
Where Shrewsbury's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 2,166 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Shrewsbury. The exposure-zones guide covers what Shrewsbury's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.