Unity Village, MO
Unity Village, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Unity Village's 77 buildings earn a 44th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Unity Village's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 46th percentile nationally.
Unity Village's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Unity Village's 77 counted buildings, 58.4% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Unity Village ranks
Inside Missouri, Unity Village sits at just the 22nd percentile even though it scores 44th 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, Unity Village ranks 17,587 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,017 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 830 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Unity Village
Unity Village's elevated wildfire rating (44th 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
Unity Village's 58.4% 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.
Where Unity Village's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Unity Village's 17,587-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Unity Village's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.