Greenwood, MS
How exposed is Greenwood to wildfire?
Greenwood's 6,494 buildings earn a 49th-percentile wildfire-risk score nationally under USFS's model — modestly above the national average for wildfire risk. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Separately from the risk score above, Greenwood's burn probability — fire likelihood with no building count factored in — sits at the 51st percentile nationally.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
USFS classifies 43.5% of Greenwood's buildings as Minimal exposure, the largest of the three zones here by a wide margin over 13.2% Direct and 43.3% Indirect — a landscape-level risk rather than a building-by-building one. At 6,494 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Greenwood against the rest of the country
Inside Mississippi, Greenwood sits at just the 19th percentile even though it scores 49th 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, Greenwood ranks 16,130 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,672 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 342 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Greenwood
Greenwood's elevated rating (49th percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Greenwood's 43.5% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 6,494 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Greenwood. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Greenwood, see the exposure-zones guide.