Parma, MO
Parma, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Parma lands at the 1st percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 429 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 Parma at the 1st percentile, close to its 1st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Parma rates 78.1% Minimal exposure against just 21.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 429 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Parma compares
Parma scores 1st nationally and 2nd within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Parma ranks 31,112 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,673 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,044 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Parma
Parma's low wildfire rating (1st 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 Parma
Parma's 78.1% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Parma's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 429 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Parma. The exposure-zones guide covers what Parma's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.