Ecru, MS
Ecru, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Ecru at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 897 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Ecru at the 72nd national percentile — 3 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Ecru's buildings actually sit
Direct exposure dominates in Ecru: 82.3% of its 897 buildings, versus 17.7% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Ecru compares
There's little gap between Ecru's 69th national percentile and its 55th percentile inside Mississippi, which means the state comparison mostly confirms what the national score already shows. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ecru ranks 9,740 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 12,748 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 192 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Ecru and the insurance market
Ecru's 69th-percentile, high rating is the kind of score behind a broader national pattern: insurers pulling back from the highest wildfire-risk markets, non-renewing or declining new policies outright, most visibly in California. Shopping around, not assuming automatic renewal, tends to matter here.
What would actually reduce this score
Because Direct exposure dominates in Ecru (82.3%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Ecru's 69th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Ecru, see the exposure-zones guide.