Wentzville, MO
How exposed is Wentzville to wildfire?
USFS scores Wentzville at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 13,906 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Wentzville at the 56th national percentile — 2 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
Most of Wentzville's buildings (48.4% of 13,906) 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. At 13,906 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Wentzville against the rest of the country
Wentzville scores 54th nationally and 40th 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, Wentzville ranks 14,592 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,082 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 637 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
At the 54th national percentile, Wentzville rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Wentzville
Wentzville's 48.4% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,906 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wentzville. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Wentzville, see the exposure-zones guide.