Belzoni, MS
How exposed is Belzoni to wildfire?
Belzoni's 1,019 buildings earn a 42nd-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.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Belzoni at the 44th percentile, close to its 42nd-percentile risk score.
Where Belzoni's buildings actually sit
Indirect exposure is dominant in Belzoni (87.5% of 1,019 buildings): far enough from burnable vegetation to avoid flame contact, close enough for wind-blown embers. Only 12.5% sit in the Direct zone.
Where Belzoni ranks
Belzoni's 42nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 16th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 27 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Belzoni ranks 18,185 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 11,807 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 355 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
Belzoni's elevated wildfire rating (42nd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 87.5% of Belzoni'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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,019 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Belzoni. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Belzoni, see the exposure-zones guide.