Canalou, MO
How exposed is Canalou to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Canalou at the 0th national percentile for risk to structures, among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a score built from 184 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Canalou at the 0th national percentile — 0 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
Canalou rates 75.5% Minimal exposure against just 24.5% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 184 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
Canalou against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Canalou's 0th national percentile and its 0th percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Canalou ranks 31,497 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 25,469 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,062 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
At the 0th national percentile, Canalou rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Hardening a home in Canalou
Canalou's 75.5% 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 Canalou's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Canalou's 31,497-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Canalou's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.