Frontenac, MO
How exposed is Frontenac to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Frontenac at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,708 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Frontenac at the 51st percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
Frontenac's building exposure, zone by zone
Only 19.4% of Frontenac's 1,708 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 80.6% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
Frontenac against the rest of the country
Inside Missouri, Frontenac sits at just the 28th percentile even though it scores 48th 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, Frontenac ranks 16,545 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 8,389 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 767 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Frontenac and the insurance market
Frontenac's elevated rating (48th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Frontenac's 80.6% 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 Frontenac's figures come from
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,708 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Frontenac. The exposure-zones guide covers what Frontenac's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.