Longtown, MO
Longtown, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Longtown at the 24th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range), a figure built from 87 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Longtown at the 24th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Longtown's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Longtown's buildings (70.1%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Longtown compares
Longtown ranks lower within Missouri (7th percentile statewide) than its 24th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Longtown ranks 24,082 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,620 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 983 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Longtown and the insurance market
Longtown's moderate wildfire rating (24th 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.
Hardening a home in Longtown
Because 70.1% of Longtown's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Longtown's figures come from
Longtown's 24th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Longtown's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.