Willow Springs, MO
Willow Springs wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Willow Springs lands at the 74th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 1,391 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Willow Springs at the 76th national percentile — 3 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 Willow Springs's buildings (56.4%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
Willow Springs against the rest of the country
Compare Willow Springs's two percentiles: 89th within Missouri, only 74th nationally — a gap of 15 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Willow Springs ranks 8,323 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,669 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 119 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Willow Springs and the insurance market
Willow Springs's high rating (74th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Willow Springs
Willow Springs's 56.4% 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Willow Springs's 8,323-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Willow Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.