Grand Falls Plaza, MO
Grand Falls Plaza wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Grand Falls Plaza lands at the 65th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 53 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Grand Falls Plaza at the 67th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Grand Falls Plaza's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Grand Falls Plaza: 100% of its 53 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
Grand Falls Plaza against the rest of the country
Grand Falls Plaza's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (69th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (65th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grand Falls Plaza ranks 11,007 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,847 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 327 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Grand Falls Plaza and the insurance market
Grand Falls Plaza's 65th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Grand Falls Plaza (100%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Grand Falls Plaza's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grand Falls Plaza's 11,007-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand Falls Plaza's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.