Eden, MS
How exposed is Eden to wildfire?
Out of every US place USFS scores, Eden lands at the 62nd percentile for wildfire risk to structures — well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a figure built from its 69 buildings, not the land around them. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Eden at the 64th national percentile — 2 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Eden's building exposure, zone by zone
69 buildings are counted in Eden, and 87% 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 Eden compares
Eden's 62nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 39th ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 24 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Eden ranks 11,853 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 30,312 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 255 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Eden and the insurance market
Eden's 62nd-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
With 87% of Eden in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
Where Eden's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Eden's 11,853-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Eden's dominant direct exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.