Bridgetown, MS
How exposed is Bridgetown to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bridgetown at the 72nd national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 919 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bridgetown at the 75th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Bridgetown's building exposure, zone by zone
Direct exposure dominates in Bridgetown: 76.5% of its 919 buildings, versus 23.3% Indirect and 0.2% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Bridgetown compares
There's little gap between Bridgetown's 72nd national percentile and its 63rd percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bridgetown ranks 8,950 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,562 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 155 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
At the 72nd percentile nationally, Bridgetown carries the high rating that has pushed some carriers to limit new business in similarly-scored places elsewhere in the country. Worth comparing quotes rather than assuming last year's renewal terms still apply.
What would actually reduce this score
With 76.5% of Bridgetown in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Bridgetown's 72nd-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 Bridgetown, see the exposure-zones guide.