Wood Heights, MO
Wood Heights, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Wood Heights sits at the 67th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 367 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Wood Heights at the 69th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Where Wood Heights's buildings actually sit
367 buildings are counted in Wood Heights, and 81.5% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Wood Heights compares
Wood Heights scores 67th nationally and 75th 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, Wood Heights ranks 10,403 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,926 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 271 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Wood Heights
At the 67th percentile nationally, Wood Heights carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
Wood Heights's 81.5% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Wood Heights's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Wood Heights's 10,403-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Wood Heights's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.