Sweet Springs, MO
Sweet Springs, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Sweet Springs's 890 buildings earn a 50th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Sweet Springs's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 52nd percentile nationally.
Where Sweet Springs's buildings actually sit
70.8% of Sweet Springs's 890 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 29.2% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Where Sweet Springs ranks
Sweet Springs's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 34th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 17 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Sweet Springs ranks 15,634 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,811 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 707 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Sweet Springs's elevated rating (50th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Sweet Springs
Because 70.8% of Sweet Springs's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Sweet Springs's 15,634-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Sweet Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.