Portageville, MO
Portageville wildfire risk explained
Out of every US place USFS scores, Portageville lands at the 2nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 1,758 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Portageville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 2nd percentile nationally.
Portageville's building exposure, zone by zone
Portageville rates 78% Minimal exposure against just 22% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 1,758 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Where Portageville ranks
Portageville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Missouri (2nd percentile statewide) as it does nationally (2nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Portageville ranks 30,958 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,196 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,038 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Portageville and the insurance market
Portageville's low wildfire rating (2nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 78% of Portageville 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Portageville's 30,958-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Portageville, see the exposure-zones guide.