Arnold Line, MS
How exposed is Arnold Line to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Arnold Line lands at the 78th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 950 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Arnold Line at the 81st national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Arnold Line's building exposure, zone by zone
Most of Arnold Line's buildings (55.9%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone.
How Arnold Line compares
There's little gap between Arnold Line's 78th national percentile and its 77th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Arnold Line ranks 6,807 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,307 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 96 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
Arnold Line's high rating (78th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
Hardening a home in Arnold Line
Because 55.9% of Arnold Line's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Arnold Line's 6,807-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Arnold Line, see the exposure-zones guide.