Walnut Grove, MO
Walnut Grove, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Walnut Grove lands at the 69th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 417 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 Walnut Grove at the 70th percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
Walnut Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
60.7% of Walnut Grove's 417 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 39.3% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Walnut Grove against the rest of the country
Walnut Grove's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (81st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (69th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Walnut Grove ranks 9,703 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,884 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 209 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Walnut Grove and the insurance market
Walnut Grove's 69th-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 Walnut Grove
Walnut Grove's 60.7% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Walnut Grove's 69th-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 Walnut Grove, see the exposure-zones guide.