Mound City, MO
How exposed is Mound City to wildfire?
USFS scores Mound City at the 62nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 805 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Mound City's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 60th percentile nationally.
Mound City's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Mound City's buildings (71.3%) 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.
Where Mound City ranks
Mound City scores 62nd nationally and 60th 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, Mound City ranks 12,102 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 13,590 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 424 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Mound City and the insurance market
Mound City's high rating (62nd percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 71.3% of Mound City'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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 805 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Mound City. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Mound City, see the exposure-zones guide.