Huntleigh, MO
Huntleigh wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Huntleigh at the 48th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 238 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 Huntleigh at the 51st percentile, close to its 48th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 55% of Huntleigh's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 45% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Huntleigh against the rest of the country
Huntleigh ranks lower within Missouri (28th percentile statewide) than its 48th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Huntleigh ranks 16,513 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,530 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 763 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
Huntleigh'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.
Hardening a home in Huntleigh
With 55% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Huntleigh 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Huntleigh's 16,513-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Huntleigh, see the exposure-zones guide.