Urich, MO
Urich, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Urich sits at the 61st percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 363 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Urich at the 63rd national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
363 buildings are counted in Urich, and 70.3% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 29.8% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
Where Urich ranks
Urich's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (60th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (61st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Urich ranks 12,199 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,003 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 432 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Urich and the insurance market
Urich's 61st-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.
Hardening a home in Urich
Because 70.3% of Urich'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
Urich's 61st-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Urich, see the exposure-zones guide.