Mine La Motte, MO
Mine La Motte, MO's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Mine La Motte at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 244 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Mine La Motte at the 61st percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Of Mine La Motte's 244 counted buildings, 96.7% carry Direct exposure and only 1.2% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Mine La Motte compares
Mine La Motte scores 59th nationally and 52nd within Missouri — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Mine La Motte ranks 12,891 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,334 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 506 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Mine La Motte
Mine La Motte's elevated wildfire rating (59th 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 Mine La Motte
With 96.7% of Mine La Motte in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Mine La Motte's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Mine La Motte's 12,891-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Mine La Motte's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.