Cliff Village, MO
Cliff Village, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Cliff Village lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 25 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cliff Village at the 67th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Cliff Village's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 84% of Cliff Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 16% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 21 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Cliff Village compares
There's little gap between Cliff Village's 65th national percentile and its 70th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cliff Village ranks 10,939 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,411 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 317 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Cliff Village
Cliff Village's high rating (65th 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 Cliff Village
Cliff Village's 84% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cliff Village's 10,939-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Cliff Village, see the exposure-zones guide.