Greenville, MS
Greenville, MS's wildfire risk, in USFS's own numbers
Greenville's 13,634 buildings earn a 34th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — close to the middle of USFS's national wildfire-risk range. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Greenville at the 34th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Greenville's buildings actually sit
65.6% of Greenville's 13,634 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 18.3% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself. At 13,634 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenville against the rest of the country
Inside Mississippi, Greenville sits at just the 11th percentile even though it scores 34th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Greenville ranks 20,898 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 1,113 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 374 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenville
Greenville's moderate rating (34th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Hardening a home in Greenville
With 65.6% of buildings rated Minimal exposure, Greenville gets less benefit from structure hardening than a Direct- or Indirect-dominant place would — the home-hardening guide explains why the zone matters.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Greenville's 20,898-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenville, see the exposure-zones guide.