Vanduser, MO
Vanduser, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Vanduser's 141 buildings earn a 0th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Vanduser at the 0th national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Vanduser's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 82.3% of Vanduser's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 17.7% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Vanduser compares
Vanduser scores 0th nationally and 0th within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vanduser ranks 31,436 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 27,258 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,061 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
Vanduser's low rating (0th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 82.3% of Vanduser outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 141 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Vanduser. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vanduser, see the exposure-zones guide.