Riverview Estates, MO
Riverview Estates, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Riverview Estates at the 49th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 49 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Riverview Estates at the 50th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 100% of Riverview Estates's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 49 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Riverview Estates ranks
Inside Missouri, Riverview Estates sits at just the 30th percentile even though it scores 49th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Riverview Estates ranks 16,136 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,959 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 742 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Riverview Estates's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Riverview Estates
Riverview Estates's 100% 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 49 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Riverview Estates. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Riverview Estates, see the exposure-zones guide.