Wildwood, MO
How exposed is Wildwood to wildfire?
USFS scores Wildwood at the 54th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 13,881 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wildwood at the 55th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Wildwood's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Wildwood's 13,881 counted buildings, 52.1% carry Direct exposure and only 3.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first. At 13,881 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Wildwood against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Wildwood's 54th national percentile and its 41st percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Wildwood ranks 14,437 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,089 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 630 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wildwood
At the 54th national percentile, Wildwood rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Wildwood (52.1%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Wildwood's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 13,881 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Wildwood. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wildwood's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.