Uplands Park, MO
How exposed is Uplands Park to wildfire?
Uplands Park sits at the 43rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 207 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Uplands Park at the 47th percentile, close to its 43rd-percentile risk score.
Where Uplands Park's buildings actually sit
Only 1% of Uplands Park's 207 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 99% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Uplands Park against the rest of the country
Uplands Park's 43rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 19th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Uplands Park ranks 17,873 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,605 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 856 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
Uplands Park's elevated rating (43rd percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 99% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Uplands Park gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 207 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Uplands Park. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Uplands Park, see the exposure-zones guide.