Abbeville, MS
Abbeville, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Abbeville at the 82nd national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 319 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Abbeville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 85th percentile nationally.
Abbeville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Abbeville's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 319 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
How Abbeville compares
Abbeville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (85th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (82nd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Abbeville ranks 5,676 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,119 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 66 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Abbeville
Abbeville's 82nd-percentile, very high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Abbeville's 100% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
Where Abbeville's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Abbeville's 5,676-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Abbeville's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.