Grenada, MS
Grenada wildfire risk explained
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Grenada at the 69th national percentile for risk to structures, well above the national norm for wildfire risk — a score built from 6,630 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Grenada at the 71st percentile, close to its 69th-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Most of Grenada's buildings (62.6%) sit in the Indirect zone, where wind-blown embers rather than flame front are the mechanism USFS is scoring — ember-resistant vents and non-combustible roofing are the interventions this pattern favors, more than defensible space alone. At 6,630 buildings, this is a substantial built environment, so the shares below describe a real population of structures, not a handful of edge cases.
Where Grenada ranks
Grenada's 69th national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 52nd ranking inside Mississippi does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 16 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Grenada ranks 9,900 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 2,609 by building count (1 is largest). Within Mississippi alone, it ranks 201 of 420 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Mississippi on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Grenada
Grenada's 69th-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.
Lowering exposure, not just insuring around it
Because 62.6% of Grenada's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
Where Grenada's figures come from
Every one of the two percentiles behind Grenada's 9,900-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. The exposure-zones guide covers what Grenada's dominant indirect exposure actually means, with real examples from across the dataset.