Boyle, MS
Boyle, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Boyle's 465 buildings earn a 15th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Boyle at the 15th national percentile — 0 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Boyle rates 65.8% Minimal exposure against just 34.2% Direct and 0% Indirect — of 465 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Boyle compares
Boyle's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (5th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (15th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Boyle ranks 26,693 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,979 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 398 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
Boyle's low rating (15th 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 Boyle
Boyle's 65.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
Where Boyle's figures come from
Boyle's 15th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Boyle's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.