Big Creek, MS
Big Creek, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Big Creek at the 65th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 122 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Big Creek's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 67th percentile nationally.
Where Big Creek's buildings actually sit
Of Big Creek's 122 counted buildings, 95.1% 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.
Where Big Creek ranks
Inside Mississippi, Big Creek sits at just the 43rd percentile even though it scores 65th 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, Big Creek ranks 11,187 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,066 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 237 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Big Creek
Big Creek's 65th-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
Because Direct exposure dominates in Big Creek (95.1%), 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
Every one of the two percentiles behind Big Creek's 11,187-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Big Creek, see the exposure-zones guide.