Parkville, MO
How exposed is Parkville to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Parkville at the 63rd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,706 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Parkville at the 64th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Only 36.8% of Parkville's 2,706 buildings carry Direct exposure and 11.3% carry Indirect; the remaining 52% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Parkville ranks
There's little gap between Parkville's 63rd national percentile and its 62nd percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parkville ranks 11,789 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 5,917 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 404 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Parkville and the insurance market
Parkville's 63rd-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 52% of Parkville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Parkville's 11,789-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Parkville, see the exposure-zones guide.