Portage Des Sioux, MO
Portage Des Sioux, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Portage Des Sioux at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 285 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Portage Des Sioux at the 13th percentile, close to its 12th-percentile risk score.
Where Portage Des Sioux's buildings actually sit
Only 15.4% of Portage Des Sioux's 285 buildings carry Direct exposure and 8.4% carry Indirect; the remaining 76.1% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Where Portage Des Sioux ranks
There's little gap between Portage Des Sioux's 12th national percentile and its 6th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portage Des Sioux ranks 27,706 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 22,036 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 999 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Portage Des Sioux
At the 12th national percentile, Portage Des Sioux rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
Portage Des Sioux's 76.1% 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 Portage Des Sioux's figures come from
Portage Des Sioux's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Portage Des Sioux's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.