Arkabutla, MS
Arkabutla, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Arkabutla lands at the 73rd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 248 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Arkabutla at the 76th percentile, close to its 73rd-percentile risk score.
Arkabutla's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 100% of Arkabutla's buildings as Direct exposure, higher than its 0% Indirect share and far above its 0% Minimal share — a profile where 248 structures sit close enough to vegetation that lot clearing matters most.
Where Arkabutla ranks
Arkabutla's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (67th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (73rd) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arkabutla ranks 8,412 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 23,208 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 138 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Arkabutla and the insurance market
Arkabutla's 73rd-percentile, 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Arkabutla'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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arkabutla's 8,412-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Arkabutla, see the exposure-zones guide.