La Grange, MO
La Grange, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts La Grange at the 50th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 594 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 La Grange at the 52nd percentile, close to its 50th-percentile risk score.
La Grange's building exposure, zone by zone
La Grange rates 49.3% Minimal exposure against just 17.7% Direct and 33% Indirect — of 594 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
La Grange against the rest of the country
La Grange's 50th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 32nd ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 18 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, La Grange ranks 15,855 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 15,913 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 721 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in La Grange
La Grange's elevated rating (50th 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
Even with 49.3% of La Grange outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 594 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for La Grange. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond La Grange, see the exposure-zones guide.