Agricola, MS
Agricola, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Agricola at the 87th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 254 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 Agricola at the 89th percentile, close to its 87th-percentile risk score.
Where Agricola's buildings actually sit
USFS classifies 97.2% of Agricola's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 2.8% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 247 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Agricola against the rest of the country
There's little gap between Agricola's 87th national percentile and its 90th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Agricola ranks 4,192 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,018 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 41 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
What this risk score means for insurance
Agricola's 87th-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.
Hardening a home in Agricola
Agricola's 97.2% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Agricola's 4,192-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Agricola, see the exposure-zones guide.