Clarksdale, MS
Clarksdale wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Clarksdale at the 31st national percentile for risk to structures, close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range — a score built from 7,661 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Clarksdale at the 31st national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Clarksdale's buildings actually sit
Only 13.7% of Clarksdale's 7,661 buildings carry Direct exposure and 9.1% carry Indirect; the remaining 77.3% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 7,661 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
How Clarksdale compares
Clarksdale ranks lower within Mississippi (10th percentile statewide) than its 31st national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clarksdale ranks 21,904 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,228 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 380 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Clarksdale and the insurance market
Clarksdale's moderate wildfire rating (31st percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Clarksdale's 77.3% 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.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 7,661 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Clarksdale. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Clarksdale, see the exposure-zones guide.