Pleasant Valley, MO
Pleasant Valley, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Pleasant Valley at the 59th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,248 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pleasant Valley at the 61st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Pleasant Valley's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 54.2% of Pleasant Valley's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 21.4% Direct and 24.4% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
How Pleasant Valley compares
There's little gap between Pleasant Valley's 59th national percentile and its 52nd percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pleasant Valley ranks 13,049 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,357 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 518 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Pleasant Valley and the insurance market
Pleasant Valley's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Even with 54.2% of Pleasant Valley 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.
Where Pleasant Valley's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pleasant Valley's 13,049-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Pleasant Valley's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.