Clarkson Valley, MO
Clarkson Valley, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Clarkson Valley at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 1,009 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clarkson Valley at the 51st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Clarkson Valley's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 46.7% of Clarkson Valley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 44.5% Direct and 8.8% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Clarkson Valley ranks
Inside Missouri, Clarkson Valley sits at just the 32nd percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Clarkson Valley ranks 15,944 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,870 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 726 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Clarkson Valley and the insurance market
Clarkson Valley's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 46.7% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Clarkson Valley gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Clarkson Valley's 49th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarkson Valley, see the exposure-zones guide.