Bassfield, MS
How exposed is Bassfield to wildfire?
Bassfield sits at the 82nd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 294 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Bassfield at the 85th percentile, close to its 82nd-percentile risk score.
Bassfield's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Bassfield's 294 counted buildings, 62.9% 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.
Bassfield against the rest of the country
Bassfield scores 82nd nationally and 85th within Mississippi — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bassfield ranks 5,550 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,792 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 63 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bassfield
Bassfield'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.
Hardening a home in Bassfield
Bassfield's 62.9% 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 Bassfield's 5,550-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Bassfield, see the exposure-zones guide.