Forest, MS
Forest wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Forest at the 67th national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (well above the national norm for wildfire risk), a figure built from 2,546 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Forest at the 70th percentile, close to its 67th-percentile risk score.
Forest's building exposure, zone by zone
2,546 buildings are counted in Forest, and 56.4% 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 Forest compares
Forest ranks lower within Mississippi (48th percentile statewide) than its 67th national percentile suggests alone — a calmer spot in a state where wildfire risk generally runs high. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Forest ranks 10,463 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 6,212 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 219 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Forest
Forest's high rating (67th 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.
What would actually reduce this score
Forest's 56.4% 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 Forest's 10,463-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Forest, see the exposure-zones guide.