Grand Pass, MO
Grand Pass, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grand Pass at the 39th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 39 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grand Pass at the 39th percentile, close to its 39th-percentile risk score.
Grand Pass's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Grand Pass: 56.4% of its 39 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 43.6% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Grand Pass compares
Inside Missouri, Grand Pass sits at just the 13th percentile even though it scores 39th 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, Grand Pass ranks 19,321 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,190 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 921 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Grand Pass and the insurance market
Grand Pass's moderate wildfire rating (39th percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Hardening a home in Grand Pass
Because Direct exposure dominates in Grand Pass (56.4%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
Where Grand Pass's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 39 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Grand Pass. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grand Pass's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.