Tindall, MO
Tindall wildfire risk explained
Tindall sits at the 47th percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 66 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Tindall at the 48th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 62.1% of Tindall's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 37.9% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Where Tindall ranks
Tindall's 47th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 27th ranking inside Missouri does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Tindall ranks 16,641 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,430 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 773 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
Tindall's elevated wildfire rating (47th 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 Tindall
Even with 62.1% of Tindall outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Tindall's 47th-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 Tindall, see the exposure-zones guide.