Beechwood, MS
Beechwood wildfire risk explained
Beechwood's 1,468 buildings earn a 46th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Beechwood at the 48th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,468 buildings are counted in Beechwood, and 71.9% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
Beechwood against the rest of the country
Inside Mississippi, Beechwood sits at just the 17th percentile even though it scores 46th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Beechwood ranks 16,894 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,319 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 349 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Beechwood and the insurance market
Beechwood's elevated rating (46th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Beechwood
Because Direct exposure dominates in Beechwood (71.9%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Beechwood's 46th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Beechwood, see the exposure-zones guide.