Crystal Springs, MS
How exposed is Crystal Springs to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Crystal Springs at the 74th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 2,455 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Crystal Springs at the 77th national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Crystal Springs's building exposure, zone by zone
52.1% of Crystal Springs's 2,455 buildings fall in USFS's Indirect exposure zone — ember cast rather than direct flame — against 47.9% Direct and 0% Minimal. Vent screens and roofing material matter more here than lot clearing alone.
Crystal Springs against the rest of the country
Crystal Springs scores 74th nationally and 69th within Mississippi — close enough that its state context doesn't change the picture the national number already gives. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Crystal Springs ranks 8,225 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,382 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 130 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
Crystal Springs's high rating (74th percentile) puts it among the places where the national carrier-pullback trend is most relevant — not a guarantee of a coverage problem, but a reason to shop rather than assume.
What would actually reduce this score
Crystal Springs's 52.1% 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.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Crystal Springs's 8,225-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Crystal Springs, see the exposure-zones guide.