Tarrants, MO
Tarrants wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Tarrants lands at the 64th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 22 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 Tarrants at the 66th percentile, close to its 64th-percentile risk score.
Tarrants's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Tarrants's 22 counted buildings, 100% 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. This is a small settlement by building count — 22 total — so these shares describe a handful of structures, not a statistical average across thousands.
Tarrants against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Tarrants's 64th national percentile and its 66th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tarrants ranks 11,385 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,442 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 363 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Tarrants
At the 64th percentile nationally, Tarrants carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Tarrants's 100% 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
Tarrants's 64th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. At 22 buildings, Tarrants is close to the size where USFS's data gets thin — the data-quality guide explains why 517 places nationally get no score at all.