Buckatunna, MS
How exposed is Buckatunna to wildfire?
Buckatunna's 431 buildings earn a 81st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Buckatunna's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 83rd percentile nationally.
Where Buckatunna's buildings actually sit
82.1% of Buckatunna's 431 buildings sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone, roughly 354 structures close enough to burnable vegetation for flame contact, not just embers — 17.9% fall in the Indirect, ember-only zone and 0% are Minimal.
How Buckatunna compares
There's little gap between Buckatunna's 81st national percentile and its 82nd percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Buckatunna ranks 5,985 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 18,628 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 75 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
Buckatunna's 81st-percentile, very 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
With 82.1% of Buckatunna 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
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 431 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Buckatunna. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Buckatunna, see the exposure-zones guide.