Bruce, MS
Bruce wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Bruce at the 66th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 1,146 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Bruce at the 68th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
1,146 buildings are counted in Bruce, and 66.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 33.9% in Direct exposure or the 0% rated Minimal.
How Bruce compares
Bruce's 66th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 46th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 20 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Bruce ranks 10,842 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 10,985 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 227 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Bruce
Bruce's 66th-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.
Hardening a home in Bruce
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Bruce (66.1% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 1,146 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Bruce. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Bruce, see the exposure-zones guide.