Clinton, MS
Clinton, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Out of every US place USFS scores, Clinton lands at the 55th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 10,685 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Clinton at the 57th percentile, close to its 55th-percentile risk score.
Clinton's building exposure, zone by zone
10,685 buildings are counted in Clinton, and 58.1% of them are Indirect exposure — ember-driven risk rather than the 35.5% in Direct exposure or the 6.4% rated Minimal. At 10,685 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Clinton ranks
Clinton's 55th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 23rd ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 31 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Clinton ranks 14,333 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,487 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 322 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Clinton and the insurance market
Clinton's elevated wildfire rating (55th 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.
Hardening a home in Clinton
Clinton's 58.1% Indirect-exposure share points at embers, not flame contact, as the main pathway — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing rank ahead of defensible space here. Detail in the home-hardening guide.
Where Clinton's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Clinton's 14,333-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Clinton's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.