Peaceful Village, MO
Peaceful Village, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Peaceful Village's 55 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Peaceful Village at the 50th percentile, close to its 49th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 61.8% of Peaceful Village's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 38.2% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 34 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Peaceful Village compares
Inside Missouri, Peaceful Village sits at just the 30th percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Peaceful Village ranks 16,134 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,791 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 740 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
At the 49th national percentile, Peaceful Village rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Peaceful Village
Because Direct exposure dominates in Peaceful Village (61.8%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Peaceful Village's 49th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Peaceful Village, see the exposure-zones guide.