Parkdale, MO
Parkdale, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Parkdale lands at the 48th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 90 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Parkdale at the 49th percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Parkdale's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Parkdale: 90% of its 90 buildings, versus 10% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Parkdale compares
Inside Missouri, Parkdale sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Parkdale ranks 16,515 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,497 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 765 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Parkdale and the insurance market
Parkdale's elevated rating (48th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Parkdale
Parkdale's 90% 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 Parkdale's 16,515-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Parkdale, see the exposure-zones guide.