Moundville, MO
Moundville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Moundville at the 59th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 108 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 Moundville at the 60th percentile, close to its 59th-percentile risk score.
Where Moundville's buildings actually sit
Of Moundville's 108 counted buildings, 50% carry Direct exposure and only 50% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Moundville compares
There's little gap between Moundville's 59th national percentile and its 52nd percentile inside Missouri, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Moundville ranks 12,892 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,697 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 507 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Moundville and the insurance market
Moundville's elevated rating (59th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because Direct exposure dominates in Moundville (50%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Moundville's 59th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Moundville, see the exposure-zones guide.