Pilot Grove, MO
Pilot Grove, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Pilot Grove sits at the 54th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 457 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Pilot Grove at the 55th percentile, close to its 54th-percentile risk score.
Pilot Grove's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Pilot Grove's buildings (90.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Pilot Grove compares
Pilot Grove scores 54th nationally and 40th 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, Pilot Grove ranks 14,500 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,132 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 633 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pilot Grove
At the 54th national percentile, Pilot Grove 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 Pilot Grove
Because 90.6% of Pilot Grove's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Pilot Grove's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 457 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pilot Grove. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pilot Grove's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.