Vinita Park, MO
How exposed is Vinita Park to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Vinita Park lands at the 45th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 972 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 Vinita Park at the 48th percentile, close to its 45th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Vinita Park's buildings (99.6% of 972) fall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones entirely — that doesn't zero out the score above, it means the risk is regional, not structure-by-structure.
How Vinita Park compares
Inside Missouri, Vinita Park sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 45th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Vinita Park ranks 17,487 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,133 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 818 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Vinita Park and the insurance market
Vinita Park's elevated rating (45th 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 Vinita Park
Vinita Park's 99.6% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Vinita Park's 45th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Vinita Park, see the exposure-zones guide.