Blue Mountain, MS
Blue Mountain, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Blue Mountain at the 79th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 430 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Blue Mountain at the 82nd percentile, close to its 79th-percentile risk score.
Blue Mountain's building exposure, zone by zone
430 buildings are counted in Blue Mountain, and 70.9% 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.
Where Blue Mountain ranks
There's little gap between Blue Mountain's 79th national percentile and its 79th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Blue Mountain ranks 6,620 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,650 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 91 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Blue Mountain and the insurance market
Blue Mountain's high rating (79th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Blue Mountain's 70.9% 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.
Where Blue Mountain's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Blue Mountain's 6,620-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Blue Mountain's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.