East Lynne, MO
How exposed is East Lynne to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts East Lynne at the 40th national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 216 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks East Lynne at the 40th 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
USFS classifies 67.6% of East Lynne's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 32.4% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where East Lynne ranks
East Lynne's 40th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 15th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 25 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, East Lynne ranks 18,908 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 24,274 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 905 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
East Lynne and the insurance market
East Lynne's moderate wildfire rating (40th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 67.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, East Lynne gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
East Lynne's 40th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond East Lynne, see the exposure-zones guide.