Cleveland, MS
Cleveland, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS scores Cleveland at the 14th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 5,311 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Cleveland at the 14th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Cleveland's buildings actually sit
Only 15.1% of Cleveland's 5,311 buildings carry Direct exposure and 0% carry Indirect; the remaining 84.9% are Minimal, which shifts the risk driving this page's score toward the surrounding landscape rather than any one structure. At 5,311 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Cleveland ranks
There's little gap between Cleveland's 14th national percentile and its 4th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Cleveland ranks 27,266 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 3,251 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 403 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 14th national percentile, Cleveland rates low for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
What would actually reduce this score
With 84.9% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Cleveland gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
Where Cleveland's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Cleveland's 27,266-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Cleveland's dominant minimal exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.