Booneville, MS
Booneville, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Booneville at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 4,668 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Booneville at the 73rd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Booneville's building exposure, zone by zone
4,668 buildings are counted in Booneville, and 64.3% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 1.8% rated Minimal.
Booneville against the rest of the country
Booneville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (57th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (70th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Booneville ranks 9,453 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,643 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 179 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Booneville and the insurance market
Booneville's high rating (70th 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.
Hardening a home in Booneville
Booneville's 64.3% 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
Booneville's 70th-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 Booneville, see the exposure-zones guide.