Doddsville, MS
How exposed is Doddsville to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Doddsville lands at the 7th percentile for wildfire risk to structures — among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally — a figure built from its 88 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Doddsville at the 6th national percentile — 1 points below its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Doddsville's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS classifies 65.9% of Doddsville's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 34.1% Direct and 0% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one.
Doddsville against the rest of the country
Doddsville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (1st percentile statewide) as it does nationally (7th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Doddsville ranks 29,439 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 29,579 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 414 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Doddsville
Doddsville's low rating (7th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Even with 65.9% of Doddsville outside USFS's Direct and Indirect zones, basic hardening — gutter maintenance, ember-resistant vents — is inexpensive relative to the regional burn-probability risk noted above. Details in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Doddsville's 7th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Doddsville, see the exposure-zones guide.