Crowder, MS
Crowder wildfire risk explained
Crowder's 349 buildings earn a 51st-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Crowder at the 52nd percentile, close to its 51st-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Crowder rates 64.8% Minimal exposure against just 28.4% Direct and 6.9% Indirect — of 349 buildings counted, few sit close enough to burnable vegetation for USFS to flag them individually.
How Crowder compares
Inside Mississippi, Crowder sits at just the 20th percentile even though it scores 51st nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crowder ranks 15,508 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 20,340 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 337 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 51st national percentile, Crowder rates elevated for wildfire risk — well short of the threshold where insurers have been withdrawing coverage, though comparing a quote costs nothing either way.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Crowder's 64.8% 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 349 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Crowder. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Crowder, see the exposure-zones guide.