Weldon Spring Heights, MO
How exposed is Weldon Spring Heights to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Weldon Spring Heights at the 55th national percentile for risk to structures, modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a score built from 47 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Weldon Spring Heights at the 58th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Weldon Spring Heights's buildings actually sit
Of Weldon Spring Heights's 47 counted buildings, 100% carry Direct exposure and only 0% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
Where Weldon Spring Heights ranks
Weldon Spring Heights scores 55th nationally and 43rd 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, Weldon Spring Heights ranks 14,061 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 31,004 by building count (1 is largest). Within Missouri alone, it ranks 608 of 1,062 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Missouri on its state page.
Weldon Spring Heights and the insurance market
Weldon Spring Heights's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 100% of Weldon Spring Heights 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.
More on how this number was built
Weldon Spring Heights's 55th-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 Weldon Spring Heights, see the exposure-zones guide.