South Greenfield, MO
How exposed is South Greenfield to wildfire?
South Greenfield's 74 buildings earn a 69th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — well above the national norm for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, South Greenfield's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 70th percentile nationally.
South Greenfield's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 60.8% of South Greenfield's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 39.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 45 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How South Greenfield compares
There's little gap between South Greenfield's 69th national percentile and its 80th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, South Greenfield ranks 9,774 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,139 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 217 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
South Greenfield and the insurance market
South Greenfield's 69th-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.
What would actually reduce this score
South Greenfield's 60.8% 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.
Where South Greenfield's figures come from
South Greenfield's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what South Greenfield's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.