Pomona, MO
Pomona wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Pomona lands at the 77th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 420 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pomona at the 80th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pomona's building exposure, zone by zone
420 buildings are counted in Pomona, and 91.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Pomona against the rest of the country
Compare Pomona's two percentiles: 94th within Missouri, only 77th nationally — a gap of 17 points that marks it as unusually exposed for its own state. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pomona ranks 7,126 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,819 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 65 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pomona
At the 77th percentile nationally, Pomona carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Pomona's 91.9% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Pomona's 7,126-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Pomona, see the exposure-zones guide.