Ellisville, MS
Ellisville wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Ellisville at the 79th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,062 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Ellisville's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 81st percentile nationally.
Where Ellisville's buildings actually sit
USFS puts 55.5% of Ellisville's 2,062 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 44.5% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
How Ellisville compares
Ellisville's risk sits at a similar level relative to Mississippi (78th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (79th) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Ellisville ranks 6,684 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 7,308 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 93 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Ellisville and the insurance market
Ellisville's 79th-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.
Hardening a home in Ellisville
With ember exposure the dominant pattern in Ellisville (55.5% Indirect), vent screens and roofing material tend to matter more than lot clearing alone. The home-hardening guide covers both.
More on how this number was built
Ellisville's 79th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Ellisville, see the exposure-zones guide.