Whiteman AFB, MO
Whiteman AFB, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Whiteman AFB lands at the 48th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 944 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Whiteman AFB's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 50th percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS puts 80.5% of Whiteman AFB's 944 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 19.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Whiteman AFB compares
Inside Missouri, Whiteman AFB sits at just the 29th percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Whiteman AFB ranks 16,328 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,354 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 752 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Whiteman AFB and the insurance market
Whiteman AFB's elevated rating (48th 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
Whiteman AFB's 80.5% 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
Whiteman AFB's 48th-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 Whiteman AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.