Duck Hill, MS
Duck Hill wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Duck Hill at the 70th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 372 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Duck Hill at the 73rd percentile, close to its 70th-percentile risk score.
Where Duck Hill's buildings actually sit
372 buildings are counted in Duck Hill, and 62.1% of them sit in USFS's Direct exposure zone — flame contact, not just ember cast, is the live possibility for most of them, against 0% rated Minimal.
How Duck Hill compares
There's little gap between Duck Hill's 70th national percentile and its 57th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Duck Hill ranks 9,489 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 19,822 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 181 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Duck Hill
Duck Hill's high rating (70th 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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Duck Hill's 62.1% Direct-exposure share means lot clearing around the structure typically outweighs any single material upgrade here. The home-hardening guide ranks the options for a place shaped like this.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Duck Hill's 9,489-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Duck Hill, see the exposure-zones guide.