Columbus AFB, MS
Columbus AFB, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Columbus AFB sits at the 53rd percentile nationally for wildfire risk to structures — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk — per USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model, built from its 489 counted buildings, not vegetation cover alone. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Columbus AFB at the 55th percentile, close to its 53rd-percentile risk score.
Columbus AFB's building exposure, zone by zone
92.4% of Columbus AFB's 489 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 7.6% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
How Columbus AFB compares
Columbus AFB's 53rd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 21st ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 32 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Columbus AFB ranks 14,906 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 17,551 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 333 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
Columbus AFB's elevated wildfire rating (53rd 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
Because 92.4% of Columbus AFB's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Columbus AFB's 14,906-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Columbus AFB, see the exposure-zones guide.