Mount Leonard, MO
Mount Leonard wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Mount Leonard at the 12th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 61 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Mount Leonard at the 11th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Mount Leonard's buildings actually sit
Only 31.2% of Mount Leonard's 61 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 68.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure.
How Mount Leonard compares
Mount Leonard scores 12th nationally and 6th 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, Mount Leonard ranks 27,892 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,626 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 1,000 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Mount Leonard's low rating (12th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Mount Leonard
Mount Leonard's 68.9% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Mount Leonard's 12th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Mount Leonard, see the exposure-zones guide.