Altenburg, MO
How exposed is Altenburg to wildfire?
Altenburg's 327 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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Altenburg at the 45th percentile, close to its 44th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
99.4% of Altenburg's 327 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 325 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 0.6% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
Where Altenburg ranks
Altenburg's 44th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 20th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 23 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Altenburg ranks 17,802 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,897 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 847 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Altenburg
Altenburg'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.
Hardening a home in Altenburg
Altenburg's 99.4% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Altenburg's 17,802-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Altenburg, see the exposure-zones guide.